Isaiah 52:1-9 ▼

1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion; Put on your glorious garments, Jerusalem, holy city. Never again shall the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you.

2 Arise, shake off the dust, sit enthroned, Jerusalem; Loose the bonds from your neck, captive daughter Zion!

3 For thus says the LORD: For nothing you were sold, without money you shall be redeemed.

4 For thus says the Lord GOD: To Egypt long ago my people went down, to sojourn there; Assyria, too, oppressed them for nought.

5 But now, what am I to do here? —oracle of the LORD. My people have been taken away for nothing; their rulers mock, oracle of the LORD; constantly, every day, my name is reviled.

6 Therefore my people shall know my name on that day, that it is I who speaks: Here I am!

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the one bringing good news, Announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, saying to Zion, “Your God is King!”

8 Listen! Your sentinels raise a cry, together they shout for joy, For they see directly, before their eyes, the LORD’s return to Zion.

9 Break out together in song, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD has comforted his people, has redeemed Jerusalem.