Isaiah 52:7-15 ▼

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.

10 The LORD has bared his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

11 |Depart! Depart! Go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

12 For you won't go out in haste, nor will you go in flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. He is called the God of all the earth.|

13 |Look! My servant will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

14 Just as many were astonished at you — so was he marred in his appearance, more than any human, and his form beyond that of human semblance —

15 so will he startle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand.