Isaiah 52:1-9 ▼

1 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean won't enter you.

2 Shake yourself from the dust and arise, and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem! Loosen the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For this is what the LORD says: |You were sold for nothing, and you'll be redeemed without money.|

4 For this is what the LORD says: |My people went down long ago into Egypt to live there; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.

5 |Now therefore, what am I doing here,| asks the LORD, |seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Those who rule over them are deluded,| says the LORD, |and continuously, all the day long, my name is blasphemed.

6 Therefore my people will know my name; in that day they'll know that it is I who speaks, 'Here I am!'

7 |How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the one who brings news of peace, who announces good things, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'

8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they sing for joy; for they will see in plain sight the return of the LORD to Zion with compassion.

9 |Break forth together into singing, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, and he has redeemed Jerusalem.