Isaiah

52 1 ^aAWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the ^bholy city: for henceforth ^cthere shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

2 ^dShake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For thus saith the LORD, ^eYe have sold yourselves ^ffor nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down ^*aforetime into ^gEgypt to ^*sojourn there; and ^hthe Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

5 Now therefore, ⁱwhat 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 ^jblasphemed.

6 Therefore my people ^kshall know my name: therefore they shall know ^lin that day that ^mI am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

7 ¶ⁿHow 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, ^oThy God reigneth!

8 ^pThy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see ^qeye to eye, when the LORD shall ^rbring again Zion.

9 ¶^sBreak forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, ^the hath redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD hath ^umade 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 ¶^vDepart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, ^wthat bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 For ^xye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will ¹be your rereward.

13 ¶Behold, ^ymy servant shall ²deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

14 As many were ^*astonied at thee; his ^z*visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

15 ^aSo shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall ^bshut their mouths at him: for that ^cwhich had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.