Isaiah 52
15 verses
This chapter begins with the call to Zion to awake and put on strength and beautiful garments, announcing that the unclean will no longer enter her gates. The oracle promises that the Lord will redeem Israel not with silver but at great cost, emphasizing the value of the people to God and the seriousness of redemption. The passage includes the promise that the Lord's name will be known and that all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of God, establishing universal recognition of God's redemptive work. The oracle portrays the herald of good news bringing tidings of peace and salvation, establishing the role of prophetic proclamation in the communication of redemptive truth. The passage then transitions into the fourth Servant Song (verses 13-53:12), introducing the portrait of the servant who will accomplish justification for many through His suffering. Isaiah 52 demonstrates that redemption is costly and valuable and that God's purposes extend to all peoples. The chapter establishes the transition to the most profound passage on the suffering servant, which will detail how the servant accomplishes salvation through sacrifice.
VERSES IN THIS CHAPTER
1
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
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Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
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For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
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For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
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Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
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Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
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Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
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Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
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The Lord hath 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.
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Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
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For ye 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 rereward.
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Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
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As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
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So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
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