Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 52
{52:1} Awake, awake, put on your strength, Tziyon; put on your
beautiful garments, Yerushalayim, 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],
Yerushalayim: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive
daughter of Tziyon. {52:3} For thus says the LORD, You were sold for
nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money. {52:4} For thus says
the Lord GOD, My people went down at the first into Mitzrayim to
sojourn there: and the Ashshur has oppressed them without cause.
{52:5} Now therefore, what do I here, says the LORD, seeing that my
people is taken away for nothing? those who rule over them do howl,
says the LORD, 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 shalom, who brings good news of good, who
publishes salvation, who says to Tziyon, 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 the LORD returns to Tziyon. {52:9}
Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Yerushalayim;
for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Yerushalayim.
{52:10} The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the [1>]eretz[<1] have seen the
[2>]yeshu`ah[<2] 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 the LORD. {52:12}
For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for
the LORD will go before you; and the God of Yisra'el 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 the
LORD 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
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: 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 infirmities, and carried our diseases; yet we
esteemed him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted. {53:5} But he was
wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the
chastisement of our shalom was on him; and with his stripes we are
healed. {53:6} All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned
everyone to his own way; and the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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
the LORD. {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 put to shame: 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; the LORD of Hosts is his name:
and the Holy One of Yisra'el is your Redeemer; the God of the whole
[1>]eretz[<1] shall he be called. {54:6} For the LORD 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 lovingkindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD
your Redeemer. {54:9} For this is [as] the waters of Noach to me; for
as I have sworn that the waters of Noach shall no more go over the
[2>]eretz[<2], 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 lovingkindness shall not depart from you, neither
shall my covenant of shalom be removed, says the LORD 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 the LORD; and
great shall be the shalom 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 the LORD, and their righteousness
which is of me, says the LORD.
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Footnotes:
[1] {52:10} earth
[2] {52:10} salvation
[1] {54:5} earth
[2] {54:9} earth
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