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Their rulers howl, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and continually, all day long, my name is despised. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>How beautiful upon the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">are the feet of the messenger who announces peace,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who brings good news,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who announces salvation,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">together they sing for joy;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for in plain sight they see</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the return of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to Zion.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Break forth together into singing,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you ruins of Jerusalem;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has comforted his people,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he has redeemed Jerusalem.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has bared his holy arm</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">before the eyes of all the nations;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and all the ends of the earth shall see</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the salvation of our God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Depart, depart, go out from there!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Touch no unclean thing;</span></span><br /><span class="text">go out from the midst of it, purify yourselves,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you who carry the vessels of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>For you shall not go out in haste,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you shall not go in flight;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will go before you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Suffering Servant</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>See, my servant shall prosper;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he shall be exalted and lifted up,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and shall be very high.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Just as there were many who were astonished at him<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22597b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">—so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and his form beyond that of mortals—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>so he shall startle<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22598c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> many nations;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">kings shall shut their mouths because of him;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for that which had not been told them they shall see,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.</span></span></p> </div><A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 52:2">Isaiah 52:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>rise up, sit</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 52:14">Isaiah 52:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr Tg: Heb <i>you</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 52:15">Isaiah 52:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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