Isaiah 52

Holman 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 live 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)