Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 52

, wake up! Put on your , Zion! Dress yourself in your most beautiful clothes, Jerusalem, , because the and the defiled will never pass through your gates again. yourself, rise up! Take your seat, Jerusalem. Loosen the chains from your neck, of Zion.Because this is what Yahweh says: “You were , and you will be bought back without money.”Because this is what the Lord Yahweh says: “My people went down to Egypt at first to live there as , and Assyria oppressed them .”“And now, what do I have here?” declares Yahweh. “My people have been taken away for nothing. Their rulers ,” declares Yahweh, “and my name is constantly , all day long.”“So my people will . So on that day they will know that I am the one who speaks— .”How on the mountains are the feet of the one who brings , who announces , who carries news of good things, who announces , who says to Zion, “Your God !”Listen! Your lift their voices— together they shout for joy! Because they see Yahweh returning to Zion.Break out together in shouts of joy, you ruins of Jerusalem! Because Yahweh has his people— he has Jerusalem.Yahweh has , in the sight of every nation, and all the ends of the earth will see the of our God.! Get out of there! Don’t touch anything . Come out from the middle of it, purify yourselves, you who carry the .Because you will not leave in a , you will not go as fugitives running away— because Yahweh will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your .Look—my will . He will be to the highest place.Just as many were at the sight of him— his appearance was so , beyond human recognition, his form so marred he no longer looked like a man—so he will many nations. Kings will because of him. Because what they were never told, they will see, and what they never heard, they will understand.