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Isaiah 52
Cheer For Prostrate Zion
Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;
Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city;
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Will no longer come into you.
O captive Jerusalem;
Loose yourself from the chains around your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3For thus says the LORD, “You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money.”
4For thus says the Lord GOD, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5“Now therefore, what do I have here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that My people have been taken away without cause?” Again the LORD declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
6“Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who announces peace
And brings good news of happiness,
Who announces salvation,
And says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see with their own eyes
When the LORD restores Zion.
You waste places of Jerusalem;
For the LORD has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
In the sight of all the nations,
That all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.
Touch nothing unclean;
Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of the LORD.
Nor will you go as fugitives;
For the LORD will go before you,
And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.
So His appearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.