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Isaiah 52 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 52
God Redeems Jerusalem
God Will Restore Jerusalem
​
1 Awake, awake!
​​Put on your strength, O Zion;
​​Put on your beautiful garments,
​​O Jerusalem, the holy city!
​​For the uncircumcised and the unclean
​​Shall no longer come to you.
2 ​​Shake yourself from the dust, arise;
​​Sit down, O Jerusalem!
​​Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
​​O captive daughter of Zion!
​
3 For thus says the LORD:
​
​​“You have sold yourselves for nothing,
​​And you shall be redeemed without money.”
​
4 For thus says the Lord GOD:
​
​​“My people went down at first
​​Into Egypt to dwell there;
​​Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 ​​Now therefore, what have I here,” says the LORD,
​​“That My people are taken away for nothing?
​​Those who rule over them
​​Make them wail,”[fn] says the LORD,
​​“And My name is blasphemed continually every day.
6 ​​Therefore My people shall know My name;
​​Therefore they shall know in that day
​​That I am He who speaks:
​‘​Behold, it is I.’ ”
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7 ​​How beautiful upon the mountains
​​Are the feet of him who brings good news,
​​Who proclaims peace,
​​Who brings glad tidings of good things,
​​Who proclaims salvation,
​​Who says to Zion,
​​“Your God reigns!”
8 ​​Your watchmen shall lift up their voices,
​​With their voices they shall sing together;
​​For they shall see eye to eye
​​When the LORD brings back Zion.
9 ​​Break forth into joy, sing together,
​​You waste places of Jerusalem!
​​For the LORD has comforted His people,
​​He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 ​​The LORD has made bare His holy arm
​​In the eyes of all the nations;
​​And all the ends of the earth shall see
​​The salvation of our God.
​
11 ​​Depart! Depart! Go out from there,
​​Touch no unclean thing;
​​Go out from the midst of her,
​​Be clean,
​​You who bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 ​​For you shall not go out with haste,
​​Nor go by flight;
​​For the LORD will go before you,
​​And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
The Sin-Bearing Servant
​
13 ​​Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently;
​​He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.
14 ​​Just as many were astonished at you,
​​So His visage was marred more than any man,
​​And His form more than the sons of men;
15 ​​So shall He sprinkle[fn] many nations.
​​Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
​​For what had not been told them they shall see,
​​And what they had not heard they shall consider.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Dead Sea Scrolls read Mock; Septuagint reads Marvel and wail; Targum reads Boast themselves; Vulgate reads Treat them unjustly.
Or startle
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