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Isaiah 52
⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news, the good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel reigns!
⁸ The watchmen shout and sing with joy, for before their very eyes they see the LORD returning to Jerusalem.
⁹ Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song, for the LORD has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰ The LORD has demonstrated his holy power before the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth will see the victory of our God.
¹¹ Get out! Get out and leave your captivity, where everything you touch is unclean. Get out of there and purify yourselves, you who carry home the sacred objects of the LORD.
¹² You will not leave in a hurry, running for your lives. For the LORD will go ahead of you; yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.
¹³ See, my servant will prosper; he will be highly exalted.
¹⁴ But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.
¹⁵ And he will startle many nations. Kings will stand speechless in his presence. For they will see what they had not been told; they will understand what they had not heard about.
Isaiah 53
¹ Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm?
² My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.