ISAIAH
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- And ye shall be redeemed without money.
- 4For thus saith the Lord God:
- My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there;
- And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
- 5Now therefore, what do I here, saith the Lord,
- Seeing that My people is taken away for nought?
- They that rule over them do howl, saith the Lord,
- And My name continually all the day is blasphemed.
- 6Therefore My people shall know My name;
- Therefore they shall know in that day
- That I, even He that spoke, behold, here I am.
- 7How beautiful upon the mountains
- Are the feet of the messenger of good tidings,
- That announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings,
- That announceth salvation;
- That saith unto Zion:
- 'Thy God reigneth! '
- 8Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice,
- Together do they sing;
- For they shall see, eye to eye,
- The Lord returning to Zion.
- 9Break forth into joy, sing together,
- Ye waste places of Jerusalem;
- For the Lord hath comforted His people,
- He hath redeemed Jerusalem.
- 10The Lord hath made bare His holy arm
- In the eyes of all the nations;
- And all the ends of the earth shall see
- The salvation of our God.
- 11Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,
- Touch no unclean thing;
- Go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,
- Ye that bear the vessels of the Lord.
- 12For ye shall not go out in haste,
- Neither shall ye go by flight;
- For the Lord will go before you,
- And the God of Israel will be your rearward.
- 13Behold, My servant shall prosper,
- He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
- 14According as many were appalled at thee—
- So marred was his visage unlike that of a man,
- And his form unlike that of the sons of men—
- 15So shall he startle many nations,
- Kings shall shut their mouths because of him;
- For that which had not been told them shall they see,
- And that which they had not heard shall they perceive.
- 53'Who would have believed our report?
- And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
- 2For he shot up right forth as a sapling,
- And as a root out of a dry ground;
- He had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him,
- Nor beauty that we should delight in him.
- 3He was despised, and forsaken of men,
- A man of pains, and acquainted with disease,
- And as one from whom men hide their face:
- He was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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