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Isaiah 52: the herald of good tidings on the mountains

Isaiah · Isaiah 52:1–12

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Jewish Publication Society, The Holy Scriptures (1917), Mechon-Mamre electronic English text, retrieved 1 October 2026. Isaiah 52:1–12. Verse numbers preserved; whitespace normalized; section markers {S} and website navigation omitted.

Public-domain JPS 1917 English translation.

1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the LORD: Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD: My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what do I here, saith the LORD, seeing that My people is taken away for nought? They that rule over them do howl, saith the LORD, and My name continually all the day is blasphemed. 6 Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore they shall know in that day that I, even He that spoke, behold, here I am. 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger of good tidings, that announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings, that announceth salvation; that saith unto Zion: 'Thy God reigneth!' 8 Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see, eye to eye, the LORD returning to Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD hath made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of the LORD. 12 For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

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1000 BCE010001500180019002000Hebrew [5]282 · 1521–1522 CE · Predicted date · Abravanel: the salvation of the LORD at the Pisces conjunction of [5]282
  1. Hebrew [5]282 · 1521–1522 CEAbravanel: the salvation of the LORD at the Pisces conjunction of [5]282 Predicted date · stated 1496–1498Derives from Ḥanan bar Taḥlifa’s scroll: the world orphaned after 4,291 years (Hebrew 4291 · 530–531 CE (Rodkinson prints “two thousand, two hundred and ninety-one”)).Derives from Abravanel: the world of exile orphaned and the end of the wonders in 5291 (Hebrew 5291 · 1530–1531 CE).

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