51
Isaiah

Awakening of Zion and Proclamation of Salvation

Isaiah 51:17-52:12
17Rouse yourself, rouse yourself; arise, Jerusalem, who has drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his rage, the dreg of the cup of reeling; you have drunk it and drained it. 18There is no one guiding her among all the sons she bore, and there is no one strengthening her hand among all the sons she raised. 19These two things have encountered you; who will show pity to you? Violence and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you? 20Your sons lie fainting at the head of every street like an antelope in a net, filled with the rage of the LORD and the rebuke of your God. 21Therefore hear this, you afflicted one who is drunk but not with wine. 22Thus says the LORD your God and your God who pleads the cause of his people: Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of reeling, the dreg of the cup of my rage; you shall never again drink it. 23I will place it instead in the hand of your tormentors, who said to your soul, Bow down so that we may pass over; and you made your back like the ground and like the street for those who pass by.
Chapter 52
1Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer enter you. 2Shake yourself from the dust; arise, Jerusalem; open the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without silver. 4For thus says the Lord GOD: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria oppressed them without cause at the end. 5Now therefore, what do I have here, declares the LORD, since my people have been taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, declares the LORD, and my name is continually despised all the day. 6Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that I am he who speaks; behold, here I am. 7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings good news of good, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns." 8The voice of your watchmen lifts up; they lift their voice together and sing for joy, for they see eye to eye when the LORD returns to Zion. 9Break forth together into singing, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. 10The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from her midst; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. 12For you shall not go out in haste, nor shall you go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
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