# Isaiah 52 (New King James Version)
God Redeems Jerusalem

##### Chapter 52
###### 1 Awake, awake!  
Put on your strength, O Zion;  
Put on your beautiful garments,  
O Jerusalem, the holy city!  
For the uncircumcised and the unclean  
Shall no longer come to you.  

###### 2 Shake yourself from the dust, arise;  
Sit down, O Jerusalem!  
Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,  
O captive daughter of Zion!

###### 3 For thus says the Lord:
"You have sold yourselves for nothing,  
And you shall be redeemed without money."

###### 4 For thus says the Lord God:
"My people went down at first  
Into Egypt to dwell there;  
Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.  

###### 5 Now therefore, what have I here," says the Lord,  
"That My people are taken away for nothing?  
Those who rule over them  
Make them wail," says the Lord,  
"And My name _is_ blasphemed continually every day.  

###### 6 Therefore My people shall know My name;  
Therefore _they shall know_ in that day  
That I _am_ He who speaks:  
'Behold, _it is_ I.' "

###### 7 How beautiful upon the mountains  
Are the feet of him who brings good news,  
Who proclaims peace,  
Who brings glad tidings of good _things,_  
Who proclaims salvation,  
Who says to Zion,  
"Your God reigns!"  

###### 8 Your watchmen shall lift up _their_ voices,  
With their voices they shall sing together;  
For they shall see eye to eye  
When the Lord brings back Zion.  

###### 9 Break forth into joy, sing together,  
You waste places of Jerusalem!  
For the Lord has comforted His people,  
He has redeemed Jerusalem.  

###### 10 The Lord has 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.

###### 11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there,  
Touch no unclean _thing;_  
Go out from the midst of her,  
Be clean,  
You who bear the vessels of the Lord.  

###### 12 For you 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 rear guard.The Sin-Bearing Servant

###### 13 Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently;  
He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.  

###### 14 Just as many were astonished at you,  
So His visage was marred more than any man,  
And His form more than the sons of men;  

###### 15 So shall He sprinkle many nations.  
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;  
For what had not been told them they shall see,  
And what they had not heard they shall consider.