Isa 52
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Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,
the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised
and the unclean.
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Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], O Jerusalem: loose yourself
from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
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For thus says YHWH, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.
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For thus says the Lord YHWH, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn
there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
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Now therefore, what do I here, says YHWH, seeing that my people is taken away for
nothing? they that rule over them do howl, says YHWH, and my name continually all
the 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 who does speak; behold, it is I.
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him whom brings good tidings, that
publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation, that
says to Zion, Your God reigns!
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The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they
shall see eye to eye, when YHWH returns to Zion.
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Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for YHWH has comforted
his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10
YHWH has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of
the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
11
Depart you, depart you, go you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out
of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, you that bear the vessels of YHWH.
12
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for YHWH will go
before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.
13
Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall
be very high.
14
Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men),
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so shall he sprinkle many nations; 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 understand.