Isaiah 52

The Lord's Coming Salvation

¹ Awake, awake,

put on your strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city;
for the uncircumcised and the unclean
shall enter you no more.
² Shake yourself from the dust, rise up,
O captive ₁ Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter Zion!

³ For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money. ⁴ For thus says the Lord God: Long ago, my people went down into Egypt to reside there as aliens; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause. ⁵ Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised. ⁶ Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of the messenger who announces peace,
who brings good news,
who announces salvation,
who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."
⁸ Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices,
together they sing for joy;
for in plain sight they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
⁹ Break forth together into singing,
you ruins of Jerusalem;
for the Lord has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰ The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Depart, depart, go out from there!
Touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of it, purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
¹² For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight;
for the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

He Was Wounded for Our Transgressions

¹³ See, my servant shall prosper;
he shall be exalted and lifted up,
and shall be very high.
¹⁴ Just as there were many who were astonished at him ₂
--so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of mortals--
¹⁵ so he shall startle ₃ many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.