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ISAIAH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION

  Isaiah

52

Isaiah 52

Jehovah’s servant and Zion’s watchmen accomplish Zion’s restoration beginning with a new exodus.

1 Awake, arise; clothe yourself with power, O Zion!Put on your robes of glory, O Jerusalem, holy city.No more shall the uncircumcised and defiled enter you. 2 Shake yourself free, rise from the dust;sit enthroned, O Jerusalem.Loose yourself from the bands around your neck,O captive Daughter of Zion. 3 Thus says Jehovah: You were sold without price,and you shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says my Lord Jehovah:At first my people went down to Egypt to sojourn there.Then the Assyrians subjected them for nothing. 5 And now, what have I here? says Jehovah.My people are taken over without price;those who govern themaact presumptuously,a says Jehovah,and my name is constantly abused all the day.
6 Therefore shall my people come to know my name;in that day they shall knowthat I, who speak, am at hand. 7 Then shall they say,How comely upon the mountainsare the feet of the messenger announcing peace,who brings tidings of good,who heralds salvation,saying to Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Hark! Your watchmen lift up their voice;as one they cry out for joy:for they shall see eye to eyewhen Jehovah returns to Zion. 10 b Jehovah has bared his holy armin the eyes of all nations,that all ends of the earth may seeour God’s salvation. 9 Break out all together into song,you ruined places of Jerusalem:Jehovah has comforted his people;he has redeemed Jerusalem.
11 Turn away, depart;touch nothing defiled as you leave Babylon.cCome out of her and be pure,you who bear Jehovah’s vessels. 12 But you shall not leave in haste or go in flight:Jehovah will go before you,the God of Israel behind you.
13 My servant, being astute, shall be highly exalted;he shall become exceedingly eminent: 14 just as hed appalled many—his appearance was marred beyond human likeness,his semblance unlike that of men— 15 So shall he yet astounde many nations,kings shutting their mouths at him—what was not told them, they shall see;what they had not heard, they shall consider.

  • a5 Also, mock; so 1QIsaa. MT wail.
  • b10 Verse transposed; appears out of sequence in the text.
  • c11 Hebrew there.
  • d14 Hebrew you.
  • e15 Or, startle; also purge, sprinkle.


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