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Isaiah 52

¹Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. ²Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. ³For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. ⁴For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause. ⁵Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed. ⁶Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he that doth speak; behold, it is I. ⁷How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! ⁸The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when YHWH returneth to Zion. ⁹Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for YHWH hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. ¹⁰YHWH hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ¹¹Depare ye, depare ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah. ¹²For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for YHWH will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward. ¹³Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. ¹⁴Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), ¹⁵so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

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