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Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake! Clothe yourself in strength, Zion. Put on your richest clothes, Jerusalem, holy city; since no longer shall there enter you either the uncircumcised or the unclean.
2 Shake off your dust; to your feet, captive Jerusalem! Free your neck from its fetters, captive daughter of Zion.
The nation in captivity
3 Yes, Yahweh says this: You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.
4 Yes, Yahweh says this: Once my people went to Egypt to settle there, then Assyria bitterly oppressed them.
5 But now what is there for me here? – it is Yahweh who speaks – now that my people have been carried off for nothing, and their masters shout their triumph – it is Yahweh who speaks – all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.
6 My people will therefore know my name; that day they will understand that it is I who say, ‘I am here’.
The awakening of Yahweh and of Jerusalem
7 How beautiful on the mountains, are the feet of one who brings good news, who heralds peace, brings happiness, proclaims salvation, and tells Zion, ‘Your God is king!’
8 Listen! Your watchmen raise their voices, they shout for joy together, for they see Yahweh face to face, as he returns to Zion.
9 Break into shouts of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem; for Yahweh is consoling his people, redeeming Jerusalem.
10 Yahweh bares his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 ‘Go away, go away, leave that place, touch nothing unclean. Get out of her,[*a] purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
12 ‘But you are not to hurry away, you are not to leave like fugitives. No, Yahweh will go in front of you, and the God of Israel will be your rearguard.’
Fourth song of the servant of Yahweh
13 See, my servant will prosper, he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights.
14 As the crowds were appalled on seeing him – so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human –
15 so will the crowds be astonished at him, and kings stand speechless before him; for they shall see something never told and witness something never heard before: