Isaiah 52

1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city, for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.Cross-references: Ex 28:2 · Ex 28:40 · Neh 11:1 · Ps 110:3 · Isa 1:21 · Isa 1:26 · +26 more

2Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!Cross-references: Isa 3:26 · Isa 29:4 · Isa 49:21 · Isa 51:14 · Isa 51:23 · Isa 61:1 · +7 more

3For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”Cross-references: Ps 44:12 · Isa 45:13 · Isa 50:1 · Jer 15:13 · Rom 7:14 · 1Pet 1:18

4For the Lord Yahweh says: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there; and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.Cross-references: Gen 46:6 · Job 2:3 · Ps 25:3 · Ps 69:4 · Isa 14:25 · Isa 36:1 · +3 more

5“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.Cross-references: Ex 1:13 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Judg 18:3 · Ps 44:12 · Ps 44:16 · +20 more

6Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”Cross-references: Ex 33:19 · Ex 34:5 · Num 23:19 · Ps 48:10 · Isa 42:9 · Isa 49:23 · +6 more

7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”Cross-references: Ps 59:13 · Ps 68:11 · Ps 93:1 · Ps 96:10 · Ps 97:1 · Ps 99:1 · +19 more

8Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.Cross-references: Song 3:3 · Song 5:7 · Isa 12:4 · Isa 24:14 · Isa 26:1 · Isa 27:2 · +25 more

9Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.Cross-references: Ps 96:11 · Ps 98:4 · Isa 14:7 · Isa 42:10 · Isa 44:23 · Isa 44:26 · +10 more

10Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.Cross-references: Ps 22:27 · Ps 98:1 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 51:9 · Isa 66:18 · Luke 3:6 · +5 more

11Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.Cross-references: Lev 5:2 · Lev 10:3 · Lev 11:26 · Lev 11:45 · Lev 11:47 · Lev 15:5 · +20 more

12For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight; for Yahweh will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.Cross-references: Ex 12:11 · Ex 12:33 · Ex 12:39 · Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:8 · Ex 14:19 · +9 more

13Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.Cross-references: Josh 1:7 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 110:1 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 11:2 · Isa 42:1 · +15 more

14Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—Cross-references: Ps 22:6 · Ps 22:15 · Ps 22:17 · Ps 71:7 · Ps 102:3 · Isa 50:6 · +15 more

15so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.Cross-references: Num 8:7 · Job 29:9 · Job 40:4 · Ps 72:9 · Isa 49:7 · Isa 49:23 · +16 more