Isaiah 第52章
The Lord’s Coming Salvation
put on your strength, O Zion;
52:1 ch. 60:21; Joel 3:17; [ch. 35:8; Rev. 21:27]for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
be seated, O Jerusalem;
52:2 ch. 51:14loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3For thus says the Lord: 52:3 ch. 45:13; 50:1“You were sold for nothing, and 52:3 [1 Pet. 1:18]you shall be redeemed without money.”
4For thus says the Lord God: 52:4 Gen. 46:6“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
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 52:5 Cited Rom. 2:24; [Ezek. 36:20, 23]continually all the day my name is despised.
752:7 Nah. 1:15; Cited Rom. 10:15How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, 52:7 ch. 40:9who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
together they sing for joy;
52:8 [ch. 33:17, 22; 1 Cor. 13:12; 1 John 3:2; Rev. 22:4]for eye to eye they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
52:9 ch. 58:12you waste places of Jerusalem,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
before the eyes of all the nations,
the salvation of our God.
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
52:11 See Ezra 1:7-11you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
and you shall not go in flight,
52:12 [ch. 58:8]and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
14As many were astonished at you—
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
52:15 Cited Rom. 15:21; [Rom. 16:25]for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.
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