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cch. 51:17 Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
d[Ex. 28:2, 40]; See Zech. 3:1-4 put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem,ech. 48:2; Neh. 11:1 the holy city;
fch. 60:21; Joel 3:17; [ch. 35:8; Rev. 21:27] for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 g[ch. 51:23] Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
hch. 51:14 loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the Lord :ich. 45:13; 50:1 “You were sold for nothing, andj[1 Pet. 1:18] you shall be redeemed without money. ” 4 For thus says the Lord God :kGen. 46:6 “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. 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, “andlCited Rom. 2:24; [Ezek. 36:20, 23] continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name.m[ch. 49:26] Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I. ”
7 nNah. 1:15; Cited Rom. 10:15 How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace,och. 40:9 who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns. ”
8 The voice ofpSee ch. 62:6 your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy;
q[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.
9 rPs. 98:4 Break forth together into singing,
sch. 58:12 you waste places of Jerusalem,
fortch. 40:1; 51:3, 12 the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 uSee ch. 51:9 The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
vPs. 98:3; [Luke 3:6] and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11 wch. 48:20; Jer. 50:8; 51:6, 45; Zech. 2:6, 7; Cited 2 Cor. 6:17; [Rev. 18:4] Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
xSee Ezra 1:7-11 you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall noty[Ex. 12:11, 33, 39] go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
zMic. 2:13; [Ex. 14:19] for the Lord will go before you,
a[ch. 58:8] and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
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Behold,bSee ch. 42:1 my servant shall act wisely;1Or shall prosper
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.
14 As many were astonished at you—
c[ch. 53:2, 3] his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
15 sodLev. 4:6, 17 shall he sprinkle1Or startle many nations;
ech. 49:7, 23 kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
fCited 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.