Isaiah 52 GNV
Summary: Zion is called to awake, put on strength and beautiful garments, and shake off the dust of captivity, for the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter her, and she is told she was sold for nothing and will be redeemed without money. The chapter includes the celebrated image of the messenger on the mountains bringing good tidings of peace and salvation, proclaiming "Thy God reigneth!" (v. 7), as watchmen lift their voices together seeing the LORD returning to Zion, and the LORD baring His holy arm before all nations so "all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God" (v. 10). The people are urged to depart Babylon, touching nothing unclean, going out not in haste but with the LORD going before and behind them as rearguard. The chapter closes introducing the Servant who will be exalted and very high, though many will be astonished at his marred appearance, setting up the Servant Song that follows in chapter 53.
1Aries, arise: put on thy strength, O Zion: put on thy garments of thy beautie, O Ierusalem, the holy citie: for hencefoorth there shall no more come into thee the vncircumcised and the vncleane.
2Shake thy selfe from the dust: arise, and sit downe, O Ierusalem: loose the bandes of thy necke, O thou captiue daughter, Zion.
3For thus sayeth the Lord, Yee were solde for naught: therefore shall ye be redeemed without money.
4For thus saith the Lord God, My people went downe afore time into Egypt to soiourne there, and Asshur oppressed them without cause.
5Nowe therefore what haue I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for naught, and they that rule ouer them, make them to howle, saith the Lord? and my Name all the day continually is blasphemed?
6Therefore my people shall know my Name: therefore they shall know in that day, that I am he that doe speake: beholde, it is I.
7How beautifull vpon the mountaines are the feete of him, that declareth and publisheth peace? that declareth good tidings, and publisheth saluation, saying vnto Zion, Thy God reigneth?
8The voyce of thy watchmen shalbe heard: they shall lift vp their voyce, and shoute together: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring againe Zion.
9O ye desolate places of Ierusalem, bee glad and reioyce together: for the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Ierusalem.
10The Lord hath made bare his holy arme in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
11Depart, depart ye: goe out from thence and touche no vncleane thing: goe out of the middes of her: be ye cleane, that beare the vessels of the Lord.
12For ye shall not goe out with haste, nor depart by fleeing away: but the Lord will goe before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.
13Beholde, my seruant shall prosper: he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very hie.
14As many were astonied at thee (his visage was so deformed of men, and his forme of the sonnes of men) so shall hee sprinkle many nations: the Kings shall shut their mouthes at him: for that which had not bene tolde them, shall they see, and that which they had not heard, shall they vnderstande.
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