King James VersionIsaiah52

Isaiah

1 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. 2 Shake thy­self from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thy­self from the bands of thy neck, O cap­tive daugh­ter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold your­selves for nought; and ye shall be re­deemed with­out mon­ey. 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My peo­ple went down afore­time into Egypt to so­journ there; and the As­syr­i­an op­pressed them with­out cause. 5 Now there­fore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my peo­ple is tak­en away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name con­tin­u­al­ly ev­ery day is blas­phemed. 6 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. 7 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! 8 Thy watch­men shall lift up the voice; with the voice to­geth­er shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing to­geth­er, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath com­fort­ed his peo­ple, he hath re­deemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD 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. 11 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 LORD. 12 For ye 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 rere­ward. 13 Be­hold, my ser­vant shall deal pru­dent­ly, he shall be ex­alt­ed and ex­tolled, and be very high. 14 As many were as­tonied at thee; his vis­age was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: 15 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.