Isaiah 52-53

Christian Standard Bible

52 “Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,^(A)
Jerusalem, the holy city!^(B)
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.^(C)
2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds^[a] from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion.”
³ For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”^(D)
4 For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,^(E)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.^[b]
5 So now what have I here”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“that my people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.^(F)
6 Therefore my people will know my name;^(G)
therefore they will know on that day
that I am he who says,
‘Here I am.’”

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of the herald,
who proclaims peace,
who brings news of good things,^(H)
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” ^(I)
8 The voices of your watchmen^(J)—
they lift up their voices,
shouting for joy together;
for every eye will see
when the Lord returns to Zion.
⁹ Be joyful, rejoice together,
you ruins of Jerusalem!^(K)
For the Lord has comforted his people;^(L)
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰ The Lord has displayed his holy arm
in the sight of all the nations;^(M)
all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.^(N)

¹¹ Leave, leave, go out from there!^(O)
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,^(P)
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
¹² For you will not leave in a hurry,^(Q)
and you will not have to take flight;
because the Lord is going before you,^(R)
and the God of Israel is your rear guard.^(S)

53 Who has believed what we have heard?^[g]
And to whom has the arm of the Lord^(X) been revealed?^(Y)
2 He grew up before him like a young plant^(Z)
and like a root out of dry ground.
He didn’t have an impressive form
or majesty that we should look at him,
no appearance that we should desire him.^(AA)
3 He was despised and rejected by men,^(AB)
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.^(AC)
He was like someone people turned away from;^[h]
he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

⁴ Yet he himself bore our sicknesses,
and he carried our pains;^(AD)
but we in turn regarded him stricken,
struck down by God,^(AE) and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced because of our rebellion,^(AF)
crushed because of our iniquities;^(AG)
punishment^(AH) for our peace was on him,
and we are healed by his wounds.^(AI)
6 We all went astray like sheep;^(AJ)
we all have turned to our own way;
and the Lord has punished him
for^[i] the iniquity^(AK) of us all.^(AL)

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
he did not open his mouth.^(AM)
8 He was taken away because of oppression and judgment,
and who considered his fate?^[j]
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
he was struck because of my people’s rebellion.
⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
but he was with a rich man at his death,^(AN)
because he had done no violence
and had not spoken deceitfully.^(AO)

¹⁰ Yet the Lord was pleased^(AP) to crush him severely.^[k](AQ)
When^[l] you make him a guilt offering,^(AR)
he will see his seed, he will prolong his days,
and by his hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.^(AS)
11 After his anguish,
he will see light^[m] and be satisfied.
By his knowledge,
my righteous^(AT) servant^(AU) will justify many,^(AV)
and he will carry their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will give him^[n] the many as a portion,
and he will receive^[o] the mighty as spoil,
because he willingly submitted to death,^(AW)
and was counted among the rebels;^(AX)
yet he bore the sin of many^(AY)
and interceded for the rebels.^(AZ)