Isaiah, starting at chapter 52
{52:1} Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your
beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there
shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. {52:2}
Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem:
loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
{52:3} For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall
be redeemed without money. {52:4} For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My
people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the
Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. {52:5} Now therefore, what
do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away for
nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name
continually all the day is blasphemed. {52:6} Therefore my people
shall know my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am
he who does speak; behold, it is I. {52:7} How beautiful on the
mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes
peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says
to Zion, Your God reigns! {52:8} The voice of your watchmen! they lift
up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye,
when Yahweh returns to Zion. {52:9} Break forth into joy, sing
together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his
people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. {52:10} Yahweh has made bare his
holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth
have seen the salvation of our God. {52:11} Depart you, depart you, go
you out from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of
her; cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. {52:12}
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for
Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your
rearward. {52:13} Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be
exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high. {52:14} Like as many
were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men), {52:15} so shall he sprinkle
many nations; 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 understand.
{53:1} Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of
Yahweh been revealed? {53:2} For he grew up before him as a tender
plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor
comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him. {53:3} He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of
suffering, and acquainted with disease: and as one from whom men hide
their face he was despised; and we didn't respect him. {53:4} Surely
he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we
considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted. {53:5} But he
was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we
are healed. {53:6} All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has
turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us
all. {53:7} He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open
his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that
before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth. {53:8} By
oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation,
who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the
living for the disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?
{53:9} They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his
death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his
mouth. {53:10} Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to
grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see
[his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh
shall prosper in his hand. {53:11} He shall see of the travail of his
soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my
righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
{53:12} Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he
shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul
to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin
of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
{54:1} Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing,
and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the
children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says
Yahweh. {54:2} Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch
forth the curtains of your habitations; don't spare: lengthen your
cords, and strengthen your stakes. {54:3} For you shall spread aboard
on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the
nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. {54:4} Don't be
afraid; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be confounded; for you
shall not be disappointed: for you shall forget the shame of your
youth; and the reproach of your widowhood shall you remember no more.
{54:5} For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name:
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole
earth shall he be called. {54:6} For Yahweh has called you as a wife
forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast
off, says your God. {54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken you; but
with great mercies will I gather you. {54:8} In overflowing wrath I
hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving
kindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer. {54:9}
For this is [as] the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that
the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn
that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. {54:10} For the
mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness
shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be
removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you. {54:11} you afflicted,
tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones
in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. {54:12}
I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of emeralds, and
all your border of precious stones. {54:13} All your children shall be
taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.
{54:14} In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far
from oppression, for you shall not be afraid; and from terror, for it
shall not come near you. {54:15} Behold, they may gather together, but
not by me: whoever shall gather together against you shall fall
because of you. {54:16} Behold, I have created the smith who blows the
fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have
created the waster to destroy. {54:17} No weapon that is formed
against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against
you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says
Yahweh.
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