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Chapter 52 |
| 1 | Awake, awake;
put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the
holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised
and the unclean. |
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2 | Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O
Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of
Zion. |
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For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money. |
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4 | For thus saith the Lord GOD,
My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian
oppressed them without cause. |
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5 | Now therefore, what have I here, saith
the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them
make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is
blasphemed. |
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| Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they
shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
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| 7 | How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that
publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! |
| 8 | Thy
watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for
they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. |
| 9 |
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD
hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. |
| 10 | The LORD
hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of
the earth shall see the salvation of our God. |
| 11 | Depart ye,
depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the
midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. |
| 12 | For
ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before
you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward. |
| 13 | Behold, my
servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very
high. |
| 14 |
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: |
| 15 | So shall he
sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which
had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall
they consider. |
