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ULT ISA Chapter 52

◄ ISA 52 ► ║ ©

52 Awake, awake,

put on your strength, Zion!

Put on your beautiful garments,

Jerusalem, holy city;

for no more will the uncircumcised

or the unclean enter you again.

2 Shake yourself from the dust;

arise, sit, Jerusalem;

Loose the chains on your neck,

captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus says Yahweh,

“You were sold for nothing,

and you will be redeemed without money.”

4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh,

“In the beginning my people went down to Egypt to live there,

and Assyria has oppressed him for no cause.

5 “And now, what do I have here”—the declaration of Yahweh—

“for my people are taken for nothing?

His rulers mock him”

—the declaration of Yahweh—

and my name is blasphemed

continually all day.[fn]

6 Therefore, my people will know my name,

therefore, on that day

for I am he, the one who speaks,

‘Here am I!’ ”

7 How beautiful on the mountains

the feet of the bearer of good news,

announcing peace, heralding good things,

announcing salvation,

saying to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

8 Listen, your watchmen raise their voices,

together they shout for joy,

for eye after eye will see

the return of Yahweh to Zion.

9 Break out into joyful singing together,

ruins of Jerusalem,

for Yahweh has comforted his people,

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 Yahweh has bared his holy arm

before the eyes of all the nations,

and all the ends of the earth will see

the salvation of our God.

11 Turn aside, turn aside, go out from there!

Do not touch the unclean!

Go out from her midst;

keep clean, bearers of the vessels of Yahweh.

12 For you will not go out in a rush,

and in flight you will not go,

for Yahweh will go before your faces,

and your rearguard will be the God of Israel.

13 Behold, my servant will act wisely;

he will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

14 As many were horrified at you—

so disfigured beyond any man was his appearance,

and his form beyond any sons of man,

15 so, he will sprinkle many nations.

Kings will shut their mouths because of him.

For what they had not been told, they will see,

and what they had not heard, they will understand.

Instead of mock, some versions identify a different Hebrew word meaning wail.