Chapter 52
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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 +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w*, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
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For thus saith the Lord +w GOD|strong=“H3069”+w*, 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 +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w*, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w*; 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 +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w* shall bring again Zion.
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¶ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w* hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
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The +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w* 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 +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w*.
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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the +w LORD|strong=“H3068”+w* 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.