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 are taken away for nothing? those who rule over them
mock," 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, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go
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 rear guard.
{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 appearance was 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?
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 dry ground.
He has no form nor comeliness.
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.
He was despised as one from whom men hide their face;
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} He was taken away by oppression and judgment;
and as for his generation,
who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living
and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
{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 caused him to suffer.
When you 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} After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the [1>]light[<1] and be satisfied.
My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself;
and he will 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 out 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 you shall 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 like 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 storms, 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 sparkling jewels, and all your
walls 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 you shall 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 will prevail;
and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh,
and their righteousness which is of me," says Yahweh.
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Footnotes:
[1] {53:11} So read the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint. Masoretic Text
omits "the light".
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