Isaiah 52

Revised Geneva Translation

52 Arise! Arise! Put on your strength, O Zion! Put on the garments of your beauty, O Jerusalem, the holy City. For henceforth, the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into you.

² Shake yourself from the dust. Arise and sit down, O Jerusalem. Loosen the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

³ For thus says the LORD: “You were sold for nothing. Therefore, you shall be redeemed without money.”

⁴ For thus says the Lord GOD: “At first, My people went down into Egypt to sojourn there. And

⁵ “Now, therefore, what do I have here,” says the LORD, “that My people are taken away for nothing? And those who rule over them make them howl,” says the LORD, “And My Name is continually blasphemed, all day long.

⁶ “Therefore, My people shall know My Name. Therefore, they shall know on that day that I Am He Who speaks, ‘Behold, it is I.’”

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who declares and publishes peace, who declares good tidings and publishes salvation, saying to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

⁸ The voice of your watchmen shall be heard. They shall lift up their voices and shout together. For they shall see eye to eye when the LORD shall restore Zion.

⁹ O, you desolate places of Jerusalem, be glad and rejoice together! For the LORD has comforted His people! He has redeemed Jerusalem!

¹⁰ The LORD has made His Holy Arm bare in the sight of all the Gentiles. And all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Depart! Depart! Go out from there and touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her. Be clean, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.

¹² For you shall not go out with haste or depart by fleeing away. But the LORD will go before you. And the God of Israel will gather you together.

¹⁴ “Just as many were astonished at you, His appearance was more deformed than any other man, and His form more than the sons of men. So shall He sprinkle many nations. The kings shall shut their mouths at Him. For that which had not been told to them, they shall see. And that which they had not heard, they shall understand.”