50 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
50 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 52
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1 Awake, awake,
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put on your strength, O Zion;
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put on your beautiful garments,
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O Jerusalem, the holy city;
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for there shall no more come into you
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the uncircumcised and the unclean.
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2 Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
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be seated, O Jerusalem;
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loose the bonds from your neck,
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O captive daughter of Zion.
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3 For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.”
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4 For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.
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5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.
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6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
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7 How beautiful upon the mountains
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are the feet of him who brings good news,
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who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
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who publishes salvation,
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who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
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8 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
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together they sing for joy;
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for eye to eye they see
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the return of the Lord to Zion.
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9 Break forth together into singing,
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you waste places of Jerusalem,
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for the Lord has comforted his people;
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he has redeemed Jerusalem.
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10 The Lord has bared his holy arm
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before the eyes of all the nations,
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and all the ends of the earth shall see
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the salvation of our God.
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11 Depart, depart, go out from there;
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touch no unclean thing;
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go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
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you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
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12 For you shall not go out in haste,
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and you shall not go in flight,
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for the Lord will go before you,
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and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
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13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely;
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he shall be high and lifted up,
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and shall be exalted.
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14 As many were astonished at you—
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his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
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and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
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15 so shall he sprinkle many nations.
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Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
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for that which has not been told them they see,
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and that which they have not heard they understand. |