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Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, a O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean won’t enter you. b
2 Shake yourself from the dust and c arise, and d sit on your throne, O Jerusalem! Loosen the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and you’ll be redeemed without money.”
4 For this is what the LORD e says: “My people went down long ago into Egypt to live f there; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.
5 “Now therefore, what g am I doing here,” asks h the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Those who rule over them are deluded,” i says the LORD, “and continuously, all the day long, my name is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people will know my name; in that day j they’ll know that it is I who speaks, ‘Here I am!’
7 “How beautiful k on the mountains are the feet of the one who brings news of peace, l who announces good things, who announces salvation, m who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’
8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, n together they sing for joy; for they will see in plain sight the return of the LORD to Zion with compassion. o
9 “Break forth together into singing, p you ruins of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, and q he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has bared his holy arm r in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 “Depart! Depart! Go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you won’t go out in haste, nor will you go in flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. He is called the God of all the earth.” s
13 “Look! My servant will prosper, and t he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
14 Just as many were astonished at you u — so was he marred in v his appearance, more than any human, and his form beyond that of human semblance w —
15 so will he startle x many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand.