52:1 Awake, awake,
Clothe yourself in your strength, Zion;
Clothe yourself with your beautiful garments,
Jerusalem, the holy city;
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Will no longer come into you.
52:2 Shake yourself from the dust, rise up,
Captive Jerusalem;
Release yourself from the chains around your neck,
Captive daughter of Zion.
52:3 For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.”
52:4 For this is what the Lord ①GOD says: “My people went down to Egypt first to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without reason.
▷ ①Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD
52:5 And now, what do I have here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that My people have been taken away without reason?” Again the LORD declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually reviled all day long.
52:6 Therefore, My people shall know My name; therefore on that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’ ”
52:7 How delightful on the mountains
Are the feet of one who brings good news,
Who announces ①peace
And brings good news of ②happiness,
Who announces salvation,
And says to Zion, “Your God ③reigns!”
▷ ①Or well-being ②Lit good ③Or is King
52:8 Listen! Your watchmen raise their voices,
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see ①with their own eyes
When the LORD restores Zion.
▷ ①Lit eye to eye
52:9 Be cheerful, shout joyfully together,
You ruins of Jerusalem;
For the LORD has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
52:10 The LORD has bared His holy arm
In the sight of all the nations,
①So that all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.
▷ ①Or And all...will see
52:11 Depart, depart, go out from there,
Do not touch what is unclean;
Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of the LORD.
52:12 But you will not go out in a hurry,
Nor will you go ①as fugitives;
For the LORD will go before you,
And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
▷ ①Lit in flight
52:13 Behold, My Servant will prosper,
He will be high and lifted up and ①greatly exalted.
▷ ①Or very high
52:14 Just as many were appalled at you, My people,
So His appearance was marred beyond that of a man,
And His form beyond the sons of mankind.
52:15 So ①He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what they had not been told, they will see,
And what they had not heard, they will understand.
▷ ①LXX many nations will wonder at Him