Isaiah 52

¹Awake , awake , put on your strength , O Zion ; put on your beautiful garments , O Jerusalem , the holy city ; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean .

²Shake yourself from the dust and arise ; be seated , O Jerusalem ; loose the bonds from your neck , O captive daughter of Zion .

³For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing , and you shall be redeemed without money .

⁴For thus says the Lord God: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there , and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing .

⁵Now therefore what have I here , declares the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing ? Their rulers wail , declares the Lord, and continually all the day my name is despised .

⁶Therefore my people shall know my name . Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak ; here I am.

⁷How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news , who publishes peace , who brings good news of happiness , who publishes salvation , who says to Zion , Your God reigns .

⁸The voice of your watchmen —they lift up their voice ; together they sing for joy ; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion .

⁹Break forth together into singing , you waste places of Jerusalem , for the Lord has comforted his people ; he has redeemed Jerusalem .

¹⁰The 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 .

¹¹Depart , depart , go out from there ; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

¹²For 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 .

¹³Behold , my servant shall act wisely ; he shall be high and lifted up , and shall be exalted .

¹⁴As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred , beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind —

¹⁵so shall he sprinkle many nations ; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see , and that which they have not heard they understand .