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            <div class="label">52</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deliverance for Jerusalem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wake up, wake up, O Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Clothe yourself with strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Sit in a place of honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Remove the chains of slavery from your neck,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">O captive daughter of Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">&#8220;When I sold you into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">I received no payment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">Now I can redeem you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">without having to pay for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What is this?&#8221; asks the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:5a </span><span class="ft">As in Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="fqa">Those who rule them wail.</span></span></span><span class="content"> My name is blasphemed all day long.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:5b </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="fqa">The Gentiles continually blaspheme my name because of you. </span><span class="ft">Compare Rom 2:24.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How beautiful on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">the good news of peace and salvation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">the news that the God of Israel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">of Zion.</span></span></span><span class="content"> reigns!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The watchmen shout and sing with joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">for before their very eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">they see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> returning to Jerusalem.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">to Zion.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has comforted his people.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">He has redeemed Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has demonstrated his holy power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">before the eyes of all the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">All the ends of the earth will see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">the victory of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">where everything you touch is unclean.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Get out of there and purify yourselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">you who carry home the sacred objects of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will not leave in a hurry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">running for your lives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will go ahead of you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Suffering Servant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">See, my servant will prosper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">he will be highly exalted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But many were amazed when they saw him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:14 </span><span class="ft">As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="fqa">you.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And he will startle</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:15a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">cleanse.</span></span></span><span class="content"> many nations.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">Kings will stand speechless in his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">For they will see what they had not been told;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">they will understand what they had not heard about.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:15b </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="fqa">Those who have never been told about him will see, / and those who have never heard of him will understand. </span><span class="ft">Compare Rom 15:21.</span></span></span></span></div>
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 Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Wake up, wake up, O Zion!
Clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,
for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.
Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem.
Sit in a place of honor.
Remove the chains of slavery from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
For this is what the LORD says:
“When I sold you into exile,
I received no payment.
Now I can redeem you
without having to pay for you.”

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria. What is this?” asks the LORD. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is blasphemed all day long. But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them.”

How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,
the good news of peace and salvation,
the news that the God of Israel reigns!
The watchmen shout and sing with joy,
for before their very eyes
they see the LORD returning to Jerusalem.
Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song,
for the LORD has comforted his people.
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
The LORD has demonstrated his holy power
before the eyes of all the nations.
All the ends of the earth will see
the victory of our God.

Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,
where everything you touch is unclean.
Get out of there and purify yourselves,
you who carry home the sacred objects of the LORD.
You will not leave in a hurry,
running for your lives.
For the LORD will go ahead of you;
yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.
LORD
See, my servant will prosper;
he will be highly exalted.
But many were amazed when they saw him.
His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,
and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
And he will startle many nations.
Kings will stand speechless in his presence.
For they will see what they had not been told;
they will understand what they had not heard about.

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