52 1 A consolation to the people of God. 7 Of the messengers thereof.

Arise, arise: put on thy strength, O Zion: put on the garments of thy beauty, O Jerusalem, the holy City: for henceforth there shall no [a]more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:1 No wicked tyrant, which shall subvert God’s true religion, and oppress the conscience.

Shake thyself from the [a]dust, arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose the bands of thy neck, O thou captive daughter Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:2 Put off the garments of sorrow and heaviness, and put on the apparel of joy and gladness.

11 [a]Depart, depart ye: go ye out from thence, and touch no unclean thing, go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, that [b]bear the vessels of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:11 He warneth the faithful not to pollute themselves with the superstitions of the Babylonians, as Isa. 48:20; 2 Cor. 6:17.
  2. Isaiah 52:11 For the time is at hand that the Priests and Levites chiefly (and so by them all the people, which shall be as the Levites in this office) shall carry home vessels of the Temple which Nebuchadnezzar had taken away.

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