Isaiah · Bible in Basic English
Isaiah 52 Bible in Basic English
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1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
1 Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city, for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
2 Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
2 Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”
4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
4 For the Lord Yahweh says: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there; and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
5 Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
5 “Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
6 For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
8 Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
9 Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
9 Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
10 Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
11 Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.
12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
12 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight; for Yahweh will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
13 See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
13 Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
14 As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
14 Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—
15 So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.
15 so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Revelation 21:27; Isaiah 51:17; Zechariah 3:4; Revelation 21:2; Isaiah 51:9
- 2 Isaiah 51:14; Jeremiah 51:50; Isaiah 61:1; Jeremiah 51:45; Luke 4:18
- 3 1 Peter 1:18; Isaiah 45:13; Psalm 44:12; Jeremiah 15:13; Isaiah 50:1
- 4 Genesis 46:6; Psalm 69:4; Acts 7:14–15; Job 2:3; Psalm 25:3
- 5 Romans 2:24; Isaiah 22:16; Psalm 44:16; Isaiah 37:6; Psalm 44:12
- 6 Ezekiel 37:13–14; Ezekiel 20:44; Hebrews 8:10–11; Zechariah 10:9–12; Exodus 33:19
- 7 Romans 10:12–15; Nahum 1:15; Isaiah 61:1–3; Mark 16:15; Psalm 93:1
- 8 Isaiah 62:6; Jeremiah 32:39; Ezekiel 33:7; Zephaniah 3:9; Isaiah 30:26
- 9 Isaiah 51:3; Psalm 98:4; Isaiah 42:10–11; Isaiah 61:4; Isaiah 49:13
- 10 Luke 3:6; Revelation 14:6; Revelation 15:4; Psalm 98:1–3; Isaiah 51:9
- 11 2 Corinthians 6:17; Zechariah 2:6–7; Ephesians 5:11; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 1:16
- 12 Isaiah 58:8; Deuteronomy 20:4; Exodus 14:19–20; Exodus 13:21–22; Isaiah 45:2
- 13 Philippians 2:7–11; Matthew 28:18; John 3:31; Isaiah 42:1; Jeremiah 23:5
- 14 Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 26:67; Isaiah 53:2–5; Psalm 22:6–7; Psalm 22:17
- 15 Romans 15:20–21; Isaiah 49:7; Ezekiel 36:25; Psalm 72:9–11; Isaiah 55:5
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.
And again, when Paul says, "How beautiful are the feet of those bringing glad tidings of good things, and preaching the Gospel of peace," he shows clearly that it was not merely one, but there were many who used to preach the truth.
Speaking in the person of the Father, he says, "Behold, my servant shall understand, and shall be exalted and glorified very much. As many shall be astonished at Thee." This is about Christ.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The Name of God is in its nature holy, whether we say so or not; but since it is sometimes profaned among sinners, according to the words, Through you My Name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles, we pray that in us God's Name may be hallowed; not that it comes to be holy from not being holy, but …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)