051:023 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you,
who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over;
and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street,
to those who go over.
052:001 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.
052:002 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem:
loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter
of Zion.
052:003 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall
be redeemed without money.
052:004 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.
052:005 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.
052:006 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.
052:007 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!
052:008 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.
052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
052:010 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.
052:011 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.
052:012 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.
052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted
and lifted up, and shall be very high.
052:014 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),
052:015 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.
053:001 Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of
Yahweh been revealed?
053:002 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root
out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness.
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