52 “Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,(A)
Jerusalem, the Holy City!(B)
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.(C)
2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds[a] from your neck,
captive Daughter Zion.”
3 For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”(D)
4 For this is what the Lord God says:
“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there,(E)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[b]
5 So now what have I here”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“that My people are taken away for nothing?
Its rulers wail”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.(F)
6 Therefore My people will know My name;(G)
therefore they will know on that day
that I am He who says:
Here I am.”
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of the herald,
who proclaims peace,
who brings news of good things,(H)
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”(I)
8 The voices of your watchmen(J)—
they lift up their voices,
shouting for joy together;
for every eye will see
when the Lord returns to Zion.
9 Be joyful, rejoice together,
you ruins of Jerusalem!(K)
For the Lord has comforted His people;(L)
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has displayed His holy arm
in the sight of all the nations;(M)
all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.(N)
11 Leave, leave, go out from there!(O)
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,(P)
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you will not leave in a hurry,(Q)
and you will not have to take flight;
because the Lord is going before you,(R)
and the God of Israel is your rear guard.(S)
The Servant’s Suffering and Exaltation
13 See, My Servant[c](T) will act wisely;[d]
He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.(U)
14 Just as many were appalled at You[e]—
His appearance was so disfigured
that He did not look like a man,
and His form did not resemble a human being—
15 so He will sprinkle[f][g] many nations.[h](V)
Kings will shut their mouths because of Him,
For they will see what had not been told them,
and they will understand what they had not heard.(W)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 52:2 Alt Hb tradition reads The bonds are removed
- Isaiah 52:4 Or them at last, or them for nothing
- Isaiah 52:13 Tg adds the Messiah
- Isaiah 52:13 Or will be successful
- Isaiah 52:14 Some Hb mss, Syr, Tg read Him
- Isaiah 52:15 Or startle
- Isaiah 52:15 As the blood of a sacrifice is sprinkled on the altar on behalf of the people
- Isaiah 52:15 LXX reads so many nations will marvel at Him
Cross references
- 52:1 : Is 61:3
- 52:1 : Neh 11:1; Is 48:2
- 52:1 : Is 35:8; Rv 21:27
- 52:3 : Is 45:13; 1Pt 1:18
- 52:4 : Gn 46:6
- 52:5 : Ezk 36:20; Rm 2:24
- 52:6 : Is 49:23
- 52:7 : Nah 1:15; Rm 10:15
- 52:7 : Ps 93:1; Is 24:23
- 52:8 : Is 62:6
- 52:9 : Is 44:26; 51:3; 61:4
- 52:9 : Is 40:1
- 52:10 : Ps 98:1-3; Is 51:9; 66:18-19
- 52:10 : Is 40:5; Lk 3:6
- 52:11 : Is 48:20; Jr 50:8; Ezk 20:34, 41; Zch 2:6, 7; 2Co 6:17
- 52:11 : 2Co 6:17; 2Tm 2:19
- 52:12 : Ex 12:11, 33; Dt 16:3
- 52:12 : Ex 23:23; Dt 1:30; 31:8; Is 45:2
- 52:12 : Jos 6:9, 13; Is 58:8
- 52:13 : Is 42:1; 49:3-7; 50:10; 53:11; Ezk 34:23-24; Zch 3:8; Ac 3:13
- 52:13 : Php 2:9-11
- 52:15 : Nm 19:18-21; Ezk 36:25
- 52:15 : Rm 15:21; Eph 3:5