Isaiah 52
1 to rouse to rouse to clothe strength your Zion to clothe garment beauty your Jerusalem city [the] holiness for not to add: again to come (in): come in/on/with you still uncircumcised and unclean
Wake up, wake up, Zion! Be strong! Put on your best clothes, Jerusalem, the holy city. Heathen foreigners won't ever enter you again.
2 to shake from dust to arise: rise captive Jerusalem (to open *QK) bond neck your captive daughter Zion
Shake yourself free from the dust and get up. Sit on your throne, Jerusalem. Throw off the chains around your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
3 for thus to say LORD for nothing to sell and not in/on/with silver: money to redeem: redeem
This is what the Lord says: You were sold for nothing, and you will be bought back without money.
4 for thus to say Lord YHWH/God Egypt to go down people my in/on/with first to/for to sojourn there and Assyria in/on/with end to oppress him
This is what the Lord God says: First of all, my people went to live in Egypt, then Assyria conquered them for no reason.
5 and now (what? *QK) (to/for me *Qk) here utterance LORD for to take: take people my for nothing (to rule him *QK) to wail utterance LORD and continually all [the] day name my to spurn
What do have I to do now? asks the Lord. My people have been taken into captivity for no reason. Those who rule them mock them, and I'm treated with contempt that whole time, says the Lord.
6 to/for so to know people my name my to/for so in/on/with day [the] he/she/it for I he/she/it [the] to speak: speak look! I
So I'm going to make sure my people know me; at that time they will know that I am the one who means what he says. Yes, it's me!
7 what? be lovely upon [the] mountain: mount foot to bear tidings to hear: proclaim peace to bear tidings pleasant to hear: proclaim salvation to say to/for Zion to reign God your
What a wonderful sight in the mountains is the one running to bring good news, announcing peace and good news, announcing salvation, telling Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8 voice to watch you to lift: loud voice together to sing for eye in/on/with eye to see: see in/on/with to return: return LORD Zion
The city watchmen shout loudly and sing for joy together; they all see the Lord returning to Jerusalem.
9 to break out to sing together desolation Jerusalem for to be sorry: comfort LORD people his to redeem: redeem Jerusalem
Let Jerusalem's ruins all sing for joy for the Lord has come to care for his people; he has set Jerusalem free.
10 to strip LORD [obj] arm holiness his to/for eye all [the] nation and to see: see all end land: country/planet [obj] salvation God our
The Lord has demonstrated his holy power to all the nations; the whole world will see our God's salvation.
11 to turn aside: depart to turn aside: depart to come out: come from there unclean not to touch to come out: come from midst her to purify to lift: bear article/utensil LORD
Leave, leave, get out of there! Don't bring anything pagan; come out and leave it all behind. Those of you who carry the Lord's sacred articles are to purify yourselves.
12 for not in/on/with haste to come out: come and in/on/with fugitive not to go: went [emph?] for to go: went to/for face: before your LORD and to gather you God Israel
But don't leave in a hurry, don't be in a rush as if you're running away, for the Lord will go ahead of you, and he will also protect those at the back.
13 behold be prudent servant/slave my to exalt and to lift: raise and to exult much
Look: my servant will act wisely; he will be praised highly, he will be elevated in position, and seen as someone people look up to.
14 like/as as which be desolate: appalled upon you many so mutilation from man appearance his and appearance his from son: child man
But many were horrified by him, so disfigured in appearance, no longer looking like a man, so unlike anyone human.
15 so to spring nation many upon him to gather king lip their for which not to recount to/for them to see: see and which not to hear: hear to understand
He will surprise many nations, and kings will keep quiet because of him—for they'll see what they haven't been told, and they'll understand what they hadn't heard.
