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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 52 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/52.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/52-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Isaiah 52</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/51.htm" title="Isaiah 51">◄</a> Isaiah 52 <a href="../isaiah/53.htm" title="Isaiah 53">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/isaiah/52.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Deliverance for Jerusalem</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Wake up, wake up, O Zion!</p><p class="line2">Clothe yourself with strength.</p><p class="line1">Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem.</p><p class="line2">Sit in a place of honor.</p><p class="line1">Remove the chains of slavery from your neck,</p><p class="line2">O captive daughter of Zion.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD says:</p><p class="line1">“When I sold you into exile,</p><p class="line2">I received no payment.</p><p class="line1">Now I can redeem you</p><p class="line2">without having to pay for you.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>What is this?” asks the LORD. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> My name is blasphemed all day long.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>How beautiful on the mountains</p><p class="line2">are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,</p><p class="line1">the good news of peace and salvation,</p><p class="line2">the news that the God of Israel<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> reigns!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The watchmen shout and sing with joy,</p><p class="line2">for before their very eyes</p><p class="line2">they see the LORD returning to Jerusalem.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song,</p><p class="line2">for the LORD has comforted his people.</p><p class="line2">He has redeemed Jerusalem.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The LORD has demonstrated his holy power</p><p class="line2">before the eyes of all the nations.</p><p class="line1">All the ends of the earth will see</p><p class="line2">the victory of our God.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,</p><p class="line2">where everything you touch is unclean.</p><p class="line1">Get out of there and purify yourselves,</p><p class="line2">you who carry home the sacred objects of the LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You will not leave in a hurry,</p><p class="line2">running for your lives.</p><p class="line1">For the LORD will go ahead of you;</p><p class="line2">yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.</p><p class="hdg">The LORD’s Suffering Servant</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>See, my servant will prosper;</p><p class="line2">he will be highly exalted.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But many were amazed when they saw him.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="line2">His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,</p><p class="line2">and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he will startle<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> many nations.</p><p class="line2">Kings will stand speechless in his presence.</p><p class="line1">For they will see what they had not been told;</p><p class="line2">they will understand what they had not heard about.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:5a </span><span class="ft">As in Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="it">Those who rule them wail.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:5b </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="it">The Gentiles continually blaspheme my name because of you.</span><span class="ft"> Compare Rom 2:24.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">of Zion.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to Zion.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:14 </span><span class="ft">As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">you.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:15a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">cleanse.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">52:15b </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="it">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><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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