English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 52, verse All in Nlv Version

Isaiah 52 : 1 (NLV)

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For those who have not gone through the religious act of becoming a Jew and those who are unclean will not come into you any more.

Isaiah 52 : 2 (NLV)

Shake off the dust. Rise up, O Jerusalem, who has been taken into prison. Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O chained people of Zion who are in prison.

Isaiah 52 : 3 (NLV)

For the Lord says, "You were sold for nothing, and you will be bought without money and made free."

Isaiah 52 : 4 (NLV)

For the Lord God says, "My people went down at first to Egypt to live there. Then the Assyrian made it hard for them without a reason.

Isaiah 52 : 5 (NLV)

So now what do I have here," says the Lord, "Seeing that My people have been taken away for no reason?" The Lord says, "Those who rule over them call out in a loud voice and My name is spoken against all day long.

Isaiah 52 : 6 (NLV)

So My people will know My name. In that day they will know that it is I Who says, 'Here I am.' "

Isaiah 52 : 7 (NLV)

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who tells of peace and brings good news of happiness, who tells of saving power, and says to Zion, "Your God rules!"

Isaiah 52 : 8 (NLV)

Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices. They call out together for joy, for they will see with their own eyes the return of the Lord to Zion.

Isaiah 52 : 9 (NLV)

Break out together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem. For the Lord has comforted His people. He has saved Jerusalem.

Isaiah 52 : 10 (NLV)

The Lord has shown His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see that our God saves.

Isaiah 52 : 11 (NLV)

Leave, leave, go from them. Touch nothing that is unclean. Leave and make yourselves pure, you who carry the holy objects of the Lord.

Isaiah 52 : 12 (NLV)

But you will not go out in a hurry. You will not leave as if you were running for your lives. For the Lord will go before you. And the God of Israel will keep watch behind you.

Isaiah 52 : 13 (NLV)

See, My Servant will do well. He will be high and lifted up and honored very much.

Isaiah 52 : 14 (NLV)

Just as many looked in wonder at you, My people, so His face was marked worse than any man, and His body more than the sons of men.

Isaiah 52 : 15 (NLV)

He will surprise many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. What they had never been told about Him, they will see. And what they had never heard about Him, they will understand.