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Isaiah 49-53
English Standard Version
Isaiah 49-53
English Standard Version
The Servant of the Lord
49 Listen to me, (A)O coastlands,
and give attention, you peoples (B)from afar.
(C)The Lord called me from the womb,
from the body of my mother he named my name.
2 (D)He made my mouth like a sharp sword;
(E)in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver he hid me away.
3 And he said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, (F)in whom I will be glorified.”[a]
4 (G)But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
and my recompense with my God.”
5 (H)And now the Lord says,
he (I)who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him;
and that Israel might be gathered to him—
for (J)I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength—
6 he says:
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
(K)I will make you (L)as a light for the nations,
that (M)my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
7 Thus says the Lord,
(N)the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
(O)to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
the servant of rulers:
(P)“Kings shall see and arise;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
The Restoration of Israel
8 Thus says the Lord:
(Q)“In a (R)time of favor I have answered you;
in a day of salvation I have helped you;
I will keep you (S)and give you
as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
(T)to apportion the desolate heritages,
9 (U)saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’
(V)They shall feed along the ways;
on all bare heights shall be their pasture;
10 (W)they shall not hunger or thirst,
neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them,
for he who has pity on them (X)will lead them,
and by springs of water will guide them.
11 (Y)And I will make all my mountains a road,
and my highways shall be raised up.
12 (Z)Behold, these shall come from afar,
and behold, (AA)these from the north and from the west,[b]
and these from the land of Syene.”[c]
13 (AB)Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;
break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord (AC)has comforted his people
and will have compassion on his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, (AD)“The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”
15 (AE)“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, (AF)I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
17 Your builders make haste;[d]
(AG)your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 (AH)Lift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
(AI)As I live, declares the Lord,
(AJ)you shall put them all on as an ornament;
you shall bind them on as a bride does.
19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
and your devastated land—
(AK)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 (AL)The children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
(AM)‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart:
‘Who has borne me these?
(AN)I was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”
22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
(AO)and raise my signal to the peoples;
(AP)and they shall bring your sons in their arms,[e]
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 (AQ)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
(AR)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and (AS)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
(AT)those who wait for me (AU)shall not be put to shame.”
24 Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the captives of a tyrant[f] be rescued?
25 For thus says the Lord:
(AV)“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant be rescued,
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
26 (AW)I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk (AX)with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that (AY)I am the Lord your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (AZ)your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which (BA)I sent her away?
Or (BB)which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
(BC)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 (BD)Why, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
(BE)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
(BF)Behold, by my rebuke (BG)I dry up the sea,
(BH)I make the rivers a desert;
(BI)their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 (BJ)I clothe the heavens with blackness
and make sackcloth their covering.”
4 The Lord God has given (BK)me
the tongue of those who are taught,
that (BL)I may know how to sustain with a word
(BM)him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
he awakens my ear
to hear as those who are taught.
5 (BN)The Lord God has opened my ear,
(BO)and I was not rebellious;
I turned not backward.
6 (BP)I gave my back to those who strike,
and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
from disgrace and spitting.
7 But the Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
(BQ)therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
8 (BR)He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
9 (BS)Behold, the Lord God helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment;
the moth will eat them up.
10 Who among you fears the Lord
and obeys (BT)the voice of his servant?
(BU)Let him who walks in darkness
and has no light
trust in the name of the Lord
and rely on his God.
11 Behold, all you who kindle a fire,
who equip yourselves with burning torches!
Walk by the light of your fire,
and by the torches that you have kindled!
(BV)This you have from my hand:
you shall lie down in torment.
The Lord's Comfort for Zion
51 (BW)“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
you who seek the Lord:
look to the rock from which you were hewn,
and to the quarry from which you were dug.
2 Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for (BX)he was but one when I called him,
that I might bless him and multiply him.
3 For the Lord (BY)comforts Zion;
he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like (BZ)Eden,
her desert like (CA)the garden of the Lord;
(CB)joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the voice of song.
4 (CC)“Give attention to me, my people,
and give ear to me, my nation;
(CD)for a law[g] will go out from me,
and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.
5 (CE)My righteousness draws near,
my salvation has gone out,
and my arms will judge the peoples;
(CF)the coastlands hope for me,
and for my arm they wait.
6 (CG)Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and look at the earth beneath;
(CH)for the heavens vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment,
and they who dwell in it will die in like manner;[h]
(CI)but my salvation will be forever,
and my righteousness will never be dismayed.
7 (CJ)“Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
the people (CK)in whose heart is my law;
(CL)fear not the reproach of man,
nor be dismayed at their revilings.
8 (CM)For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
and the worm will eat them like wool,
(CN)but my righteousness will be forever,
and my salvation to all generations.”
9 (CO)Awake, awake, (CP)put on strength,
O (CQ)arm of the Lord;
awake, (CR)as in days of old,
the generations of long ago.
Was it not you who cut (CS)Rahab in pieces,
who pierced (CT)the dragon?
10 (CU)Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep,
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to pass over?
11 (CV)And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12 “I, I am he (CW)who comforts you;
who are you that you are afraid of (CX)man who dies,
of the son of man who is made (CY)like grass,
13 and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
(CZ)who stretched out the heavens
and (DA)laid the foundations of the earth,
and you fear continually all the day
because of the wrath of (DB)the oppressor,
when he sets himself to destroy?
And where is the wrath of (DC)the oppressor?
14 (DD)He who is bowed down shall speedily be released;
he shall not die and go down (DE)to the pit,
neither shall his bread be lacking.
15 I am the Lord your God,
(DF)who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
the Lord of hosts is his name.
16 (DG)And I have put my words in your mouth
(DH)and covered you in the shadow of my hand,
(DI)establishing[i] the heavens
and (DJ)laying the foundations of the earth,
and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”
17 (DK)Wake yourself, wake yourself,
stand up, O Jerusalem,
(DL)you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
the bowl, (DM)the cup of staggering.
18 (DN)There is none to guide her
among all the sons she has borne;
there is none to take her by the hand
among all the sons she has brought up.
19 (DO)These two things have happened to you—
who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
who will comfort you?[j]
20 (DP)Your sons have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an (DQ)antelope (DR)in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.
21 (DS)Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted,
who are drunk, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
your God (DT)who pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand (DU)the cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
23 (DV)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
(DW)who have said to you,
‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (DX)you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to pass over.”
The Lord's Coming Salvation
52 (DY)Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
(DZ)put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, (EA)the holy city;
(EB)for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 (EC)Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
(ED)loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the Lord: (EE)“You were sold for nothing, and (EF)you shall be redeemed without money.” 4 For thus says the Lord God: (EG)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[k] 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (EH)continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. (EI)Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
7 (EJ)How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, (EK)who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8 The voice of (EL)your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy;
(EM)for eye to eye they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
9 (EN)Break forth together into singing,
(EO)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (EP)the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 (EQ)The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
(ER)and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11 (ES)Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
(ET)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not (EU)go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
(EV)for the Lord will go before you,
(EW)and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions
13 Behold, (EX)my servant shall act wisely;[l]
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
14 As many were astonished at you—
(EY)his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
15 so (EZ)shall he sprinkle[m] many nations.
(FA)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
(FB)for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 (FC)Who has believed what he has heard from us?[n]
And to whom has (FD)the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
(FE)and like a root out of dry ground;
(FF)he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 (FG)He was despised and rejected[o] by men,
a man of sorrows[p] and acquainted with[q] grief;[r]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[s]
he was despised, and (FH)we esteemed him not.
4 (FI)Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
(FJ)smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 (FK)But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
(FL)and with his wounds we are healed.
6 (FM)All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
(FN)and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
(FO)yet he opened not his mouth;
(FP)like a (FQ)lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, (FR)who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
(FS)and with a rich man in his death,
although (FT)he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet (FU)it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;[t]
(FV)when his soul makes[u] an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
(FW)the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see[v] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall (FX)the righteous one, my servant,
(FY)make many to be accounted righteous,
(FZ)and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 (GA)Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,[w]
(GB)and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,[x]
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
(GC)yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:3 Or I will display my beauty
- Isaiah 49:12 Hebrew from the sea
- Isaiah 49:12 Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Sinim
- Isaiah 49:17 Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste
- Isaiah 49:22 Hebrew in their bosom
- Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac, Vulgate (see also verse 25); Masoretic Text of a righteous man
- Isaiah 51:4 Or for teaching; also verse 7
- Isaiah 51:6 Or will die like gnats
- Isaiah 51:16 Or planting
- Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text how shall I comfort you
- Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
- Isaiah 52:13 Or shall prosper
- Isaiah 52:15 Or startle
- Isaiah 53:1 Or Who has believed what we have heard?
- Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
- Isaiah 53:3 Or pains; also verse 4
- Isaiah 53:3 Or and knowing
- Isaiah 53:3 Or sickness; also verse 4
- Isaiah 53:3 Or as one who hides his face from us
- Isaiah 53:10 Or he has made him sick
- Isaiah 53:10 Or when you make his soul
- Isaiah 53:11 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll he shall see light
- Isaiah 53:12 Or with the great
- Isaiah 53:12 Or with the numerous
Isaiah 49-53
New International Version
Isaiah 49-53
New International Version
The Servant of the Lord
49 Listen(A) to me, you islands;(B)
hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born(C) the Lord called(D) me;
from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.(E)
2 He made my mouth(F) like a sharpened sword,(G)
in the shadow of his hand(H) he hid me;
he made me into a polished arrow(I)
and concealed me in his quiver.
3 He said to me, “You are my servant,(J)
Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.(K)”
4 But I said, “I have labored in vain;(L)
I have spent my strength for nothing at all.
Yet what is due me is in the Lord’s hand,(M)
and my reward(N) is with my God.”(O)
5 And now the Lord says—
he who formed me in the womb(P) to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel(Q) to himself,
for I am[a] honored(R) in the eyes of the Lord
and my God has been my strength(S)—
6 he says:
“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant(T)
to restore the tribes of Jacob
and bring back those of Israel I have kept.(U)
I will also make you a light(V) for the Gentiles,(W)
that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.”(X)
7 This is what the Lord says—
the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel(Y)—
to him who was despised(Z) and abhorred by the nation,
to the servant of rulers:
“Kings(AA) will see you and stand up,
princes will see and bow down,(AB)
because of the Lord, who is faithful,(AC)
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen(AD) you.”
Restoration of Israel
8 This is what the Lord says:
“In the time of my favor(AE) I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;(AF)
I will keep(AG) you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people,(AH)
to restore the land(AI)
and to reassign its desolate inheritances,(AJ)
9 to say to the captives,(AK) ‘Come out,’
and to those in darkness,(AL) ‘Be free!’
“They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.(AM)
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,(AN)
nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.(AO)
He who has compassion(AP) on them will guide(AQ) them
and lead them beside springs(AR) of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
and my highways(AS) will be raised up.(AT)
12 See, they will come from afar(AU)—
some from the north, some from the west,(AV)
some from the region of Aswan.[b]”
13 Shout for joy,(AW) you heavens;
rejoice, you earth;(AX)
burst into song, you mountains!(AY)
For the Lord comforts(AZ) his people
and will have compassion(BA) on his afflicted ones.(BB)
15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child(BE) she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!(BF)
16 See, I have engraved(BG) you on the palms of my hands;
your walls(BH) are ever before me.
17 Your children hasten back,
and those who laid you waste(BI) depart from you.
18 Lift up your eyes and look around;
all your children gather(BJ) and come to you.
As surely as I live,(BK)” declares the Lord,
“you will wear(BL) them all as ornaments;
you will put them on, like a bride.
19 “Though you were ruined and made desolate(BM)
and your land laid waste,(BN)
now you will be too small for your people,(BO)
and those who devoured(BP) you will be far away.
20 The children born during your bereavement
will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
give us more space to live in.’(BQ)
21 Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who bore me these?(BR)
I was bereaved(BS) and barren;
I was exiled and rejected.(BT)
Who brought these(BU) up?
I was left(BV) all alone,(BW)
but these—where have they come from?’”
22 This is what the Sovereign Lord(BX) says:
“See, I will beckon to the nations,
I will lift up my banner(BY) to the peoples;
they will bring(BZ) your sons in their arms
and carry your daughters on their hips.(CA)
23 Kings(CB) will be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.(CC)
They will bow down(CD) before you with their faces to the ground;
they will lick the dust(CE) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;(CF)
those who hope(CG) in me will not be disappointed.(CH)”
25 But this is what the Lord says:
“Yes, captives(CJ) will be taken from warriors,(CK)
and plunder retrieved from the fierce;(CL)
I will contend with those who contend with you,(CM)
and your children I will save.(CN)
26 I will make your oppressors(CO) eat(CP) their own flesh;
they will be drunk on their own blood,(CQ) as with wine.
Then all mankind will know(CR)
that I, the Lord, am your Savior,(CS)
your Redeemer,(CT) the Mighty One of Jacob.(CU)”
Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience
50 This is what the Lord says:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce(CV)
with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
did I sell(CW) you?
Because of your sins(CX) you were sold;(CY)
because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.
2 When I came, why was there no one?
When I called, why was there no one to answer?(CZ)
Was my arm too short(DA) to deliver you?
Do I lack the strength(DB) to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke(DC) I dry up the sea,(DD)
I turn rivers into a desert;(DE)
their fish rot for lack of water
and die of thirst.
3 I clothe the heavens with darkness(DF)
and make sackcloth(DG) its covering.”
4 The Sovereign Lord(DH) has given me a well-instructed tongue,(DI)
to know the word that sustains the weary.(DJ)
He wakens me morning by morning,(DK)
wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.(DL)
5 The Sovereign Lord(DM) has opened my ears;(DN)
I have not been rebellious,(DO)
I have not turned away.
6 I offered my back to those who beat(DP) me,
my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;(DQ)
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.(DR)
7 Because the Sovereign Lord(DS) helps(DT) me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,(DU)
and I know I will not be put to shame.(DV)
8 He who vindicates(DW) me is near.(DX)
Who then will bring charges against me?(DY)
Let us face each other!(DZ)
Who is my accuser?
Let him confront me!
9 It is the Sovereign Lord(EA) who helps(EB) me.
Who will condemn(EC) me?
They will all wear out like a garment;
the moths(ED) will eat them up.
10 Who among you fears(EE) the Lord
and obeys(EF) the word of his servant?(EG)
Let the one who walks in the dark,
who has no light,(EH)
trust(EI) in the name of the Lord
and rely on their God.
11 But now, all you who light fires
and provide yourselves with flaming torches,(EJ)
go, walk in the light of your fires(EK)
and of the torches you have set ablaze.
This is what you shall receive from my hand:(EL)
You will lie down in torment.(EM)
Everlasting Salvation for Zion
51 “Listen(EN) to me, you who pursue righteousness(EO)
and who seek(EP) the Lord:
Look to the rock(EQ) from which you were cut
and to the quarry from which you were hewn;
2 look to Abraham,(ER) your father,
and to Sarah, who gave you birth.
When I called him he was only one man,
and I blessed him and made him many.(ES)
3 The Lord will surely comfort(ET) Zion(EU)
and will look with compassion on all her ruins;(EV)
he will make her deserts like Eden,(EW)
her wastelands(EX) like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness(EY) will be found in her,
thanksgiving(EZ) and the sound of singing.
4 “Listen to me, my people;(FA)
hear me,(FB) my nation:
Instruction(FC) will go out from me;
my justice(FD) will become a light to the nations.(FE)
5 My righteousness draws near speedily,
my salvation(FF) is on the way,(FG)
and my arm(FH) will bring justice to the nations.
The islands(FI) will look to me
and wait in hope(FJ) for my arm.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,(FK)
the earth will wear out like a garment(FL)
and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation(FM) will last forever,(FN)
my righteousness will never fail.(FO)
7 “Hear me, you who know what is right,(FP)
you people who have taken my instruction to heart:(FQ)
Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals
or be terrified by their insults.(FR)
8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment;(FS)
the worm(FT) will devour them like wool.
But my righteousness will last forever,(FU)
my salvation through all generations.”
9 Awake, awake,(FV) arm(FW) of the Lord,
clothe yourself with strength!(FX)
Awake, as in days gone by,
as in generations of old.(FY)
Was it not you who cut Rahab(FZ) to pieces,
who pierced that monster(GA) through?
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,(GB)
the waters of the great deep,(GC)
who made a road in the depths of the sea(GD)
so that the redeemed(GE) might cross over?
11 Those the Lord has rescued(GF) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;(GG)
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy(GH) will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.(GI)
12 “I, even I, am he who comforts(GJ) you.
Who are you that you fear(GK) mere mortals,(GL)
human beings who are but grass,(GM)
13 that you forget(GN) the Lord your Maker,(GO)
who stretches out the heavens(GP)
and who lays the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror(GQ) every day
because of the wrath of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction?
For where is the wrath of the oppressor?(GR)
14 The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;(GS)
they will not die in their dungeon,
nor will they lack bread.(GT)
15 For I am the Lord your God,
who stirs up the sea(GU) so that its waves roar(GV)—
the Lord Almighty(GW) is his name.
16 I have put my words in your mouth(GX)
and covered you with the shadow of my hand(GY)—
I who set the heavens in place,
who laid the foundations of the earth,(GZ)
and who say to Zion, ‘You are my people.(HA)’”
The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath
17 Awake, awake!(HB)
Rise up, Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the Lord
the cup(HC) of his wrath,(HD)
you who have drained to its dregs(HE)
the goblet that makes people stagger.(HF)
18 Among all the children(HG) she bore
there was none to guide her;(HH)
among all the children she reared
there was none to take her by the hand.(HI)
19 These double calamities(HJ) have come upon you—
who can comfort you?(HK)—
ruin and destruction,(HL) famine(HM) and sword(HN)—
who can[d] console you?
20 Your children have fainted;
they lie at every street corner,(HO)
like antelope caught in a net.(HP)
They are filled with the wrath(HQ) of the Lord,
with the rebuke(HR) of your God.
21 Therefore hear this, you afflicted(HS) one,
made drunk,(HT) but not with wine.
22 This is what your Sovereign Lord says,
your God, who defends(HU) his people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
the cup(HV) that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
you will never drink again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,(HW)
who said to you,
‘Fall prostrate(HX) that we may walk(HY) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
like a street to be walked on.”(HZ)
52 Awake, awake,(IA) Zion,
clothe yourself with strength!(IB)
Put on your garments of splendor,(IC)
Jerusalem, the holy city.(ID)
The uncircumcised(IE) and defiled(IF)
will not enter you again.(IG)
2 Shake off your dust;(IH)
rise up,(II) sit enthroned, Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,(IJ)
Daughter Zion,(IK) now a captive.
3 For this is what the Lord says:
4 For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
5 “And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord.
“For my people have been taken away for nothing,
and those who rule them mock,[e]”
declares the Lord.
“And all day long
my name is constantly blasphemed.(IQ)
6 Therefore my people will know(IR) my name;(IS)
therefore in that day(IT) they will know
that it is I who foretold(IU) it.
Yes, it is I.”
7 How beautiful on the mountains(IV)
are the feet of those who bring good news,(IW)
who proclaim peace,(IX)
who bring good tidings,
who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”(IY)
8 Listen! Your watchmen(IZ) lift up their voices;(JA)
together they shout for joy.(JB)
When the Lord returns(JC) to Zion,(JD)
they will see it with their own eyes.
9 Burst into songs of joy(JE) together,
you ruins(JF) of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted(JG) his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.(JH)
10 The Lord will lay bare his holy arm(JI)
in the sight of all the nations,(JJ)
and all the ends of the earth(JK) will see
the salvation(JL) of our God.
11 Depart,(JM) depart, go out from there!
Touch no unclean thing!(JN)
Come out from it and be pure,(JO)
you who carry the articles(JP) of the Lord’s house.
12 But you will not leave in haste(JQ)
or go in flight;
for the Lord will go before you,(JR)
the God of Israel will be your rear guard.(JS)
The Suffering and Glory of the Servant
13 See, my servant(JT) will act wisely[f];
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.(JU)
14 Just as there were many who were appalled(JV) at him[g]—
his appearance was so disfigured(JW) beyond that of any human being
and his form marred beyond human likeness(JX)—
15 so he will sprinkle(JY) many nations,[h]
and kings(JZ) will shut their mouths(KA) because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.(KB)
53 Who has believed our message(KC)
and to whom has the arm(KD) of the Lord been revealed?(KE)
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(KF)
and like a root(KG) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance(KH) that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering,(KI) and familiar with pain.(KJ)
Like one from whom people hide(KK) their faces
he was despised,(KL) and we held him in low esteem.
4 Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,(KM)
yet we considered him punished by God,(KN)
stricken by him, and afflicted.(KO)
5 But he was pierced(KP) for our transgressions,(KQ)
he was crushed(KR) for our iniquities;
the punishment(KS) that brought us peace(KT) was on him,
and by his wounds(KU) we are healed.(KV)
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,(KW)
each of us has turned to our own way;(KX)
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity(KY) of us all.
7 He was oppressed(KZ) and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;(LA)
he was led like a lamb(LB) to the slaughter,(LC)
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[i] and judgment(LD) he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;(LE)
for the transgression(LF) of my people he was punished.[j]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,(LG)
and with the rich(LH) in his death,
though he had done no violence,(LI)
nor was any deceit in his mouth.(LJ)
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will(LK) to crush(LL) him and cause him to suffer,(LM)
and though the Lord makes[k] his life an offering for sin,(LN)
he will see his offspring(LO) and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper(LP) in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,(LQ)
he will see the light(LR) of life[l] and be satisfied[m];
by his knowledge[n] my righteous servant(LS) will justify(LT) many,
and he will bear their iniquities.(LU)
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[o](LV)
and he will divide the spoils(LW) with the strong,[p]
because he poured out his life unto death,(LX)
and was numbered with the transgressors.(LY)
For he bore(LZ) the sin of many,(MA)
and made intercession(MB) for the transgressors.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:5 Or him, / but Israel would not be gathered; / yet I will be
- Isaiah 49:12 Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text Sinim
- Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text righteous
- Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text / how can I
- Isaiah 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail
- Isaiah 52:13 Or will prosper
- Isaiah 52:14 Hebrew you
- Isaiah 52:15 Or so will many nations be amazed at him (see also Septuagint)
- Isaiah 53:8 Or From arrest
- Isaiah 53:8 Or generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?
- Isaiah 53:10 Hebrew though you make
- Isaiah 53:11 Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have the light of life.
- Isaiah 53:11 Or (with Masoretic Text) 11 He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied
- Isaiah 53:11 Or by knowledge of him
- Isaiah 53:12 Or many
- Isaiah 53:12 Or numerous
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