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Yahweh Redeems Zion

 Awake! Awake; put on your strength, Zion!
- Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem, holy city ![fn]
  - For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not continue to[fn] enter you any longer.
2 Shake yourself free from the dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem!
- Free yourselves from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
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3 For thus says Yahweh:

“You were sold for nothing,
- and you shall be redeemed without money.”
NOTNOT

4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him ⌊without cause⌋.[fn] 5 And now what do I have here?”⌊declares⌋[fn] Yahweh, “for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl,” ⌊declares⌋[fn] Yahweh—“and my name is reviled continually, all day. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. ⌊Here am I⌋.”[fn]

7 How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,
- who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation,
- who says to Zion, “Your God reigns as a king.”
8 The voices[fn] of your watchmen! They lift up their voices;[fn]
- together they sing for joy;
  - for they clearly[fn] see Yahweh’s return to Zion.
9 Break forth,
- sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem,
for Yahweh has comforted his people;
- he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 Yahweh has bared his holy arm[fn] to the eyes of all the nations,
- and all the ends[fn] of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing.
- Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
12 For you shall not go out in haste,
- and you shall not go in flight,
for Yahweh is going before you,
- and your rear guard is the God of Israel.
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The Servant’s Suffering and Exaltation

13 Look, my servant shall achieve success;
- he shall be exalted,
and he shall be lifted up,
- and he shall be very high.
14 Just as many were appalled at you—
- such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement,
  - and his form beyond the sons of mankind—
15 so he shall sprinkle many nations;
- because of him, kings shall shut their mouths.[fn]
For they shall see what has not been told them,
- and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.
53 Who has believed our message,
- and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
2 For[fn] he went[fn] up like a shoot before him,
- and like a root from dry ground.
He had no form and no majesty that[fn] we should see him,
- and no appearance that[fn] we should take pleasure in him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
- a man of suffering, and acquainted with[fn] sickness,
and like one from whom others hide their faces ,[fn] he was despised,
- and we did not hold him in high regard.
4 However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses,
- and he carried our pain,
yet[fn] we ourselves assumed him stricken,
- struck down by God and afflicted.
5 But[fn] he was pierced[fn] because of our transgressions,
- crushed because of our iniquities;
the chastisement for[fn] our peace[fn] was upon him,
- and by his wounds[fn] we were healed .[fn]
6 All of us have wandered about like sheep;
- we each have turned to his own way;
and Yahweh let fall on him
- the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
- yet[fn] he did not open his mouth;
he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter,
- and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers,
so[fn] he did not open his mouth.
8 He was taken by restraint of justice,
- and who concerned himself with his generation?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
- he received a blow because of the transgression of my people.
9 He made[fn] his grave with the wicked,
- and with the rich in his death,
although he had done no violence,
- and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet[fn] Yahweh was pleased to crush him;
- he made him sick .[fn]
If she[fn] places[fn] his life a guilt offering,[fn]
- he will see offspring.
He will prolong days,
- and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand.
11 From the trouble of his life[fn] he will see;[fn]
- he will be satisfied.
In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous,[fn]
- and he is the one who will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many,[fn]
- and with the strong ones he will divide bounty,
because[fn] he poured his life out to death
- and was counted with the transgressors;
and[fn] he was the one who bore the sin of many
- and will intercede for the transgressors.

52:? Literally “city of the holiness”

52:? Literally “do again he shall”

52:4 Literally “in nothing”

52:5 Literally “declaration of”

52:6 Literally “Look at me”

52:6 Hebrew “voice”

52:6 Literally “eye in eye “

52:6 Literally “the arm of his holiness”

52:6 Hebrew “end”

52:6 Hebrew “mouth”

53:? Or “And”

53:? Or “grew”

53:? Or “and”

53:? Or “knowledgeable of”

53:? Literally “hiding of face from him”

53:? Or “and”

53:? Or “And”

53:? Or “wounded”

53:? Or “of”

53:? Or “healing”

53:? Hebrew “wound”

53:? Literally “it was healed for us”

53:? Or “and”

53:? Or “gave”

53:? Or “And”

53:? Literally “he made sick”

53:? Or “you”

53:? Or “makes”

53:? Or “compensation”

53:? Or “soul”

53:? Dead Sea Scrolls add “light”

53:? Or “right”

53:? Or “great”

53:? Literally “Instead of that”

53:? Or “yet”

LEB by section ISA 52:1

Yahweh Redeems Zion