Chapter 52
1 Awake , awake ! Put on your strength , Zion . Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem , the holy city , for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you .
2 Shake yourself from the dust ! Arise , sit up , Jerusalem ! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck , captive daughter of Zion !
3 For Yahweh says , " You were sold for nothing ; and you will be redeemed without money ."
4 For the Lord Yahweh says : " My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there ; and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause .
5 " Now therefore , what do I do here ," says Yahweh , " seeing that my people are taken away for nothing ? Those who rule over them mock," says Yahweh , " and my name is blasphemed continually all day long .
6 Therefore my people shall know my name . Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks . Behold , it is I ."
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news , who publishes peace , who brings good news , who proclaims salvation , who says to Zion , " Your God reigns !"
8 Your watchmen lift up their voice . Together they sing ; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion .
9 Break out into joy ! Sing together , you waste places of Jerusalem ; for Yahweh has comforted his people . He has redeemed Jerusalem .
10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations . All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God .
11 Depart ! Depart ! Go out from there ! Touch no unclean thing ! Go out from among her ! Cleanse yourselves , you who carry Yahweh ’s vessels .
12 For you shall not go out in haste , neither shall you go by flight ; for Yahweh will go before you , and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
13 Behold , my servant will deal wisely . He will be exalted and lifted up , and will be very high .
14 Just as many were astonished at you — his appearance was marred more than any man , and his form more than the sons of men —
15 so he will cleanse many nations . Kings will shut their mouths at him ; for they will see that which had not been told them , and they will understand that which they had not heard .