52:1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your glorious garments, O Jerusalem, holy city. No longer shall the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you.
52:2 Shake off the dust, ascend to the throne, Jerusalem; Loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter Zion!
52:3 For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing, and without money you shall be redeemed.
52:4 Thus says the Lord GOD: To Egypt in the beginning my people went down, to sojourn there; Assyria, too, oppressed them for nought.
52:5 But now, what am I to do here? says the LORD. My people have been taken away without redress; their rulers make a boast of it, says the LORD; all the day my name is constantly reviled.
52:6 Therefore on that day my people shall know my renown, that it is I who have foretold it. Here I am!
52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings glad tidings, Announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion, "Your God is King!"
52:8 Hark! Your watchmen raise a cry, together they shout for joy, For they see directly, before their eyes, the LORD restoring Zion.
52:9 Break out together in song, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD comforts his people, he redeems Jerusalem.
52:10 The LORD has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations; All the ends of the earth will behold the salvation of our God.
52:11 Depart, depart, come forth from there, touch nothing unclean! Out from there! Purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
52:12 Yet not in fearful haste will you come out, nor leave in headlong flight, For the LORD comes before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel.
52:13 See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted.
52:14 Even as many were amazed at him ? so marred was his look beyond that of man, and his appearance beyond that of mortals ?
52:15 So shall he startle many nations, because of him kings shall stand speechless; For those who have not been told shall see, those who have not heard shall ponder it.