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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 ESV</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><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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/52.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Coming Salvation</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Awake, awake,</span><br /><span class="indent">put on your strength, O Zion;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">put on your beautiful garments,</span><br /><span class="indent">O Jerusalem, the holy city;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for there shall no more come into you</span><br /><span class="indent">the uncircumcised and the unclean.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Shake yourself from the dust and arise;</span><br /><span class="indent">be seated, O Jerusalem;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">loose the bonds from your neck,</span><br /><span class="indent">O captive daughter of Zion.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now therefore what have I here,” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “and continually all the day my name is despised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How beautiful upon the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent">are the feet of him who brings good news,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,</span><br /><span class="indent">who publishes salvation,</span><br /><span class="indent">who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;</span><br /><span class="indent">together they sing for joy;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for eye to eye they see</span><br /><span class="indent">the return of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to Zion.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Break forth together into singing,</span><br /><span class="indent">you waste places of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has comforted his people;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has redeemed Jerusalem.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has bared his holy arm</span><br /><span class="indent">before the eyes of all the nations,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and all the ends of the earth shall see</span><br /><span class="indent">the salvation of our God.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Depart, depart, go out from there;</span><br /><span class="indent">touch no unclean thing;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,</span><br /><span class="indent">you who bear the vessels of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you shall not go out in haste,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you shall not go in flight,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will go before you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.</span></p> <p class="heading">He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, my servant shall act wisely;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or shall prosper">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">he shall be high and lifted up,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shall be exalted.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As many were astonished at you—</span><br /><span class="indent">his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/52-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so shall he sprinkle<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or startle">c</a></sup></span> many nations.</span><br /><span class="indent">Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for that which has not been told them they see,</span><br /><span class="indent">and that which they have not heard they understand.</span><br /><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">the Assyrian</span> has oppressed them of late</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">shall</span> prosper</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>startle</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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