Isaiah 52

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¹Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you. ✦ ²Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion. ✦ ³For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.” ✦ ⁴For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause. ✦ ⁵And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long. ✦ ⁶Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!” ✦ ⁷How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” ✦ ⁸Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion. ✦ ⁹Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. ✦ ¹⁰The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. ✦ ¹¹Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD. ✦ ¹²For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard. ✦ ¹³Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. ✦ ¹⁴Just as many were appalled at Him—His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness— ✦ ¹⁵so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 51 ·10 Isa 49 ·9 Isa 61 ·5 Jer 51 ·5 Acts 2 ·4 Ps 22 ·4 Isa 48 ·4 Ezek 20 ·3

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 52 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
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Pastoral

SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Seminary

★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 52David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 52Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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