Isaiah 52 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Isaiah 52

¹ ‘Wake up, wake up; put on your strength, Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you.

² Stand up, shake the dust off yourself! Take your seat, Jerusalem. Remove the bonds  from your neck, captive Daughter Zion.’

³ For this is what the  Lord  says: ‘You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without silver.’

⁴ For this is what the Lord God  says: ‘At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

⁵ So now what have I here’ – this is the  Lord’s declaration – ‘that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail’ – this is the  Lord’s declaration – ‘and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.

⁶ Therefore my people will know my name; therefore they will know on that day that I am he who says, “Here I am.” ’

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace, who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns! ’

⁸ The voices of your watchmen   – they lift up their voices, shouting for joy together; for every eye will see when the Lord returns to Zion.

⁹ Be joyful, rejoice together, you ruins of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ The Lord has displayed his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Leave, leave, go out from there! Do not touch anything unclean; go out from her, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the  Lord.

¹² For you will not leave in a hurry, and you will not have to take flight; because the Lord is going before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

¹³ See, my servant  , will be successful; he will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.

¹⁴ Just as many were appalled at you   – his appearance was so disfigured that he did not look like a man, and his form did not resemble a human being –

¹⁵ so he will sprinkle many nations.  , Kings will shut their mouths because of him, for they will see what had not been told them, and they will understand what they had not heard.