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52 Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised aand the unclean
Shall no longer come to you.
2 bShake yourself from the dust, arise;
Sit down, O Jerusalem!
cLoose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion!
d“You have sold yourselves for nothing,
And you shall be redeemed ewithout money.”
“My people went down at first
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
2Make them wail,” says the Lord,
“And My name is gblasphemed 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 hHow 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,
i“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 jThe Lord has 3made bare His holy arm
In the eyes of kall the nations;
And all the ends of the earth shall see
The salvation of our God.
11 lDepart! Depart! Go out from there,
Touch no unclean thing;
Go out from the midst of her,
mBe clean,
You who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For nyou shall not go out with haste,
Nor go by flight;
oFor the Lord will go before you,
pAnd the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
13 Behold, qMy Servant shall 4deal prudently;
rHe shall be exalted and 5extolled and be very high.
14 Just as many were astonished at you,
So His svisage 6was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;
15 tSo shall He 7sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For uwhat had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.
53 Who ahas believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no 1form or 2comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no 3beauty that we should desire Him.
3 bHe is despised and 4rejected by men,
A Man of 5sorrows and cacquainted with 6grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and dwe did not esteem Him.
4 Surely eHe has borne our 7griefs
And carried our 8sorrows;
Yet we 9esteemed Him stricken,
1Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was fwounded 2for our transgressions,
He was 3bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His gstripes 4we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord 5has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet hHe opened not His mouth;
iHe was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was jtaken from 6prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For kHe was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 lAnd 7they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any mdeceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to 8bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul nan offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 9He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge oMy righteous pServant shall qjustify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 rTherefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
sAnd He shall divide the 1spoil with the strong,
Because He tpoured out His soul unto death,
And He was unumbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And vmade intercession for the transgressors.
54 “Sing, O abarren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
2 “Enlarge bthe place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will cinherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.
4 “Do dnot fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 eFor your Maker is your husband,
The Lord of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called fthe God of the whole earth.
6 For the Lord ghas called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your God.
7 “For ha mere moment I have forsaken you,
But with great mercies iI will gather you.
8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
jBut with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “For this is like the waters of kNoah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with lyou, nor rebuke you.
10 For mthe mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
nBut My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with ocolorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
Your gates of crystal,
And all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your children shall be ptaught by the Lord,
And qgreat shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness you shall be established;
You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.
Whoever assembles against you shall rfall for your sake.
16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith
Who blows the coals in the fire,
Who brings forth an 1instrument for his work;
And I have created the 2spoiler to destroy.
17 No weapon formed against you shall sprosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
tAnd their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord.
An Invitation to Abundant Life
55 “Ho! aEveryone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
bCome, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
2 Why do you 1spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline your ear, and ccome to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
dAnd I will make an everlasting covenant with you—
The esure mercies of David.
4 Indeed I have given him as fa witness to the people,
gA leader and commander for the people.
5 hSurely you shall call a nation you do not know,
iAnd nations who do not know you shall run to you,
Because of the Lord your God,
And the Holy One of Israel;
jFor He has glorified you.”
6 kSeek the Lord while He may be lfound,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 mLet the 2wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man nhis thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
oAnd He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
8 “For pMy thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For qas the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For ras the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 sSo shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me 3void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall tprosper in the thing for which I sent it.
12 “For uyou shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall vbreak forth into singing before you,
And wall the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 xInstead of ythe thorn shall come up the cypress tree,
And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
And it shall be to the Lord zfor a name,
For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
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