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          DASV: Isaiah 52    

1 Wake up, wake up,
          clothe yourself with strength, O Zion.
     Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city;
           no longer will the uncircumcised
          and the unclean enter you.
2 Shake off the dust from yourself;
          get up, sit on your throne, O Jerusalem.
      Lose yourself from the chains on your neck,
          O captive daughter of Zion.

3 For this is what the LORD says,
     "You were sold for nothing;
     you will be redeemed without money."
4 For this is what the sovereign LORD says,
     "At first my people went down into Egypt to live there,
     recently Assyria has oppressed them for no reason."
5 "Now therefore, what do I have here," says the LORD,
          "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?
     Those who rule over them shout a taunt at them," says the LORD,
          "and my name is continually blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people will know my name;
     in that day then they will know
     that I am the one who speaks; look, it is I."

7 How beautiful upon the mountains
     are the feet of him that brings good tidings,
     who announces peace,
     who brings good news,
     who publishes salvation,
     who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
8 Your watchmen lift their voices,
     together they shout for joy;
      they will see with their own eyes,
     when LORD returns to Zion.
9 Break out into joyful singing,
     you ruins of Jerusalem;
      for the LORD has comforted his people,
     he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has bared his holy arm
          in the eyes of all the nations.
      All the ends of the earth
          will see the salvation of our God.

11 Depart, depart, get out of here,
          touch nothing unclean.
      Get out of the midst of her;
          purify yourselves,
           you who bear the sacred vessels of the LORD.
12 For you will not leave quickly,
     nor will you go fleeing for your lives;
      for the LORD will go before you;
     the God of Israel will watch your back.

13 Look, my servant will deal wisely;
     he will be exalted and lifted up,
           and will be greatly exalted.
14 Just as many were astonished at him,
     his disfigured face was marred more than any other,
      and his form beyond other human beings.
15 So he will sprinkle many nations;
          kings will shut their mouths before him.
     For that which they had not been told,
          they will see;
           and that which they had not heard,
          they will understand.

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