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Isaiah 52 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:1 - Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:2 - Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:3 - For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:5 - Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:6 - For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:7 - How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:8 - The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:9 - Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:10 - The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:11 - Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:12 - For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.

The Exalted Servant

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:13 - See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:14 - As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:15 - So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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