52:1 Wake up! Wake up!
Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful clothes,
O Jerusalem, holy city!
For uncircumcised and unclean pagans
will no longer invade you.
Get up, captive Jerusalem!
Take off the iron chains around your neck,
O captive daughter Zion!
"You were sold for nothing,
and you will not be redeemed for money."
"In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt;
Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.
"Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing,
those who rule over them taunt," says the
"and my name is constantly slandered all day long.
for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says,
'Here I am.'"
the feet of a messenger who announces peace,
a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance,
who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
in unison they shout for joy,
for they see with their very own eyes
the
O ruins of Jerusalem!
For the
he protects Jerusalem.
in the sight of all the nations;
the entire earth sees
our God deliver.
Don't touch anything unclean!
Get out of it!
Stay pure, you who carry the
or leave in a panic.
For the
the God of Israel is your rear guard.
He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted -
he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man;
so now he will startle many nations.
Kings will be shocked by his exaltation,
for they will witness something unannounced to them,
and they will understand something they had not heard about.
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