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isaiah 52
1 - Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion.Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
2 - Shake yourself from the dust!Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
3 - For the LORD says, "You were sold for nothing;and you will be redeemed without money."
4 - For thus says the Lord God:"My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there:and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
5 - "Now therefore, what do I do here," says The LORD,"seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?Those who rule over them mock," says The LORD,"and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
6 - Therefore my people shall know my name.Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks.Behold, it is I."
7 - How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,who publishes peace,who brings good news,who proclaims salvation,who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
8 - Your watchmen lift up their voice,together they sing;for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD returns to Zion.
9 - Break out into joy,sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;for the LORD has comforted his people.He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 - The LORD has 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.
11 - Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing!Go out from among her!Cleanse yourselves, you who carry The LORD's vessels.
12 - For you shall not go out in haste,neither shall you go by flight:for the LORD will go before you;and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
13 - Behold, my servant will deal wisely.He will be exalted and lifted up,and will be very high.
14 - Just as many were astonished at you(his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
15 - so he will cleanse many nations.Kings will shut their mouths at him:for they will see that which had not been told them;and they will understand that which they had not heard.
