Isaiah 52

Awake, awake, clothe yourself with your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and unclean will never enter you again. Shake off the dust;
rise and sit, Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the bonds on your neck, captive daughter of Zion. For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without silver.” For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live there, and Assyria oppressed them without cause. Now what have I here,” declares the LORD, “when my people have been taken away for nothing?
Their rulers howl,” declares the LORD, “and continually, all day long, my name is blasphemed. Therefore my people will know my name;
therefore in that day they will know that I am the one who speaks: ‘Here I am!’” How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the bearer of good news, who proclaims peace, who brings good news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” The voice of your watchmen!
They lift up their voices and sing for joy together, for with their own eyes they will see the LORD returning to Zion. Break into singing together, ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem. The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. Depart, depart, go out from there!
Touch nothing unclean.
Go out from her midst;
purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. For you will not go out in haste or leave in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. “Look, my servant will act wisely;
he will be exalted, lifted up, and very high. Just as many were appalled at you—his appearance was so marred beyond that of a man, and his form beyond that of the sons of men— so he will sprinkle many nations.
Kings will shut their mouths because of him, for what they had not been told they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand.”

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