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Isaiah 52

1 A consolation to the people of God 7 Of the messengers thereof.
1.Arise, arise: put on thy strength, ô Zión: put on the garments of thy beautie, ô Jerusalém, the holy city: for hence forth there shal no amore come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2.Shake thy self from the bdust, arise, and sit down, ô Jerusalém: loose the bands of thy neck, ô thou captive daughter, Zión.
3.For thus saith the Lord, Ye were sold for cnaught · therefore shal ye be redeemed without money.
4.For thus saith the Lord God, My people went ddown afore time into Egypt to sojourn there, and Asshúr eoppressed them without cause.
5.Now therefore what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for naught, and they that rule over them, make them to howle, saith the Lord? and my Name all the day continually is fblasphemed?
6.Therefore my people shal know my Name · therefore they shal know in that day, that I am he that do speak: behold, it is I.
7.How gbeautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him, that declareth and publisheth peace? that declareth good tidings, and publisheth salvation, saying unto Zión, Thy God reigneth?
8.hThe voice of thy watchmen shalbe heard: they shal lift up their voyce, and shout together: for they shal see eye to eye, when the Lord shal bring again Zión.
9.O ye desolate places of Jerusalém, be glad & rejoyce together: for the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalém.
10.The Lord hath made ibare his holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the ends of the earth shal see the salvation of our God.
11.kDepart, depart ye · go out from thence and touch no unclean thing. go out of the middes of her · be ye clean, that lbear the vessels of the Lord.
12.For ye shal not go out mwith haste, nor depart by fleeing away: but the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israél wil gather you together.
13.Behold, my nservant shal prosper: he shalbe exalted and extolled, and be very hie.
14.As many were astonied at thee (his visage was so odeformed of men, and his form of the sons of men) so pshal he sprincle many nations: the Kings shal shut their qmouths at him. for that which had not been told them, shal they see, and that which they had not heard, shal they runderstand.

Notes

1-a.
No wicked tyrant, which shall subvert God’s true religion, and oppress the consciences.
2-b.
Put off the garments of sorrow and heaviness, and put on the apparel of joy and gladness.
3-c.
The Babylonians paid nothing to me for you, therefore I will take you again without ransom.
4-d.
When Jacob went thether in time of famine.
4-e.
The Egyptians might pretend some cause to oppress my people because they went thether and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by and therefore will I punish them more then I did the Egyptians.
5-f.
To wit, by the wicked which think that I have no power to deliver them.
7-g.
Signifying that the joy and good tidings of their deliverance should make their affliction in the meantime more easy: but this is chiefly meant of the spiritual joy, as Nah. 1.15, Rom. 10.15.
8-h.
The Prophets which are your watchmen, shall publish this your deliverance, this was begun under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah but is accomplished under Christ.
10-i.
As ready to smite his enemies and to deliver his people.
11-k.
He warns the faithful not to pollute themselves with the superstitions of the Babylonians as Ch. 48.20, 2 Cor. 6.17.
11-l.
For the time is at hand, that the Priests, and Levities chiefly (and so by them all the people which shall be as Levites, in this office) shall carry home the vessels of the Temple, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken away.
12-m.
As your fathers did out of Egypt.
13-n.
Meaning, Christ by whom our spiritual deliverance should be wrought, whereof this was a figure.
14-o.
In the corrupt judgement of man Christ in his person was not esteemed.
14-p.
He shall spread his word through many nations.
14-q.
In sign of reverence, and as being astonished at his excellency.
14-r.
By the preaching of the Gospel.