Isaiah 52:4-12

English Standard Version

⁴For thus says the Lord God: ^(A)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.^[a] ⁵Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ^(B)continually all the day my name is despised. ⁶Therefore my people shall know my name. ^(C)Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”

⁷^(D)How beautiful upon the mountains
    are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, ^(E)who brings good news of happiness,
    who publishes salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
⁸The voice of ^(F)your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
    together they sing for joy;
^(G)for eye to eye they see
    the return of the Lord to Zion.
⁹^(H)Break forth together into singing,
    ^(I)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for ^(J)the Lord has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰^(K)The Lord has bared his holy arm
    before the eyes of all the nations,
^(L)and all the ends of the earth shall see
    the salvation of our God.

¹¹^(M)Depart, depart, go out from there;
    touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
    ^(N)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
¹²For you shall not ^(O)go out in haste,
    and you shall not go in flight,
^(P)for the Lord will go before you,
    ^(Q)and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.