| | Chapter
52 |
| 1 | Awake,
awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,
the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean. |
| 2
| Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. |
| 3 | For thus saith the LORD, Ye have
sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. |
| 4 | For thus saith the Lord GOD, My
people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian
oppressed them without cause. |
| 5
| Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is
taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the
LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. |
| 6 | Therefore my people shall know my name:
therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it
is I. |
| 7 |
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth
salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
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8 | Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD
shall bring again Zion. |
| 9 |
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD
hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. |
| 10 | The LORD hath made bare his holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the
salvation of our God. |
| 11 |
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out
of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
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| 12 | For ye shall not go out with
haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel
will be your rereward. |
| 13 |
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled,
and be very high. |
| 14 | As
many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his
form more than the sons of men: |
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15 | So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their
mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that
which they had not heard shall they consider. |
