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