Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit on thy throne, O Jerusalem: {Another reading is, the bonds of thy neck are loosed.}loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.
Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak; behold, {Or, here I am}it is I.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
The voice of thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, {Or, how}when Jehovah returneth to Zion.
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.
For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.
Behold, my servant shall {Or, prosper}deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
Like as many were astonished at thee (his visage was so marred {Or, from that of man, and his form from that of the sons of men}more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
so shall he {Or, startle}sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths {Or, because of}at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they {Or, consider}understand.
Querverweise zu Jesaja 52,5 Jes 52,5
What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!
For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
Thou sellest thy people for nought,And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach?Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Remember this, that the enemy {Or, hath reproached Jehovah}hath reproached, O Jehovah,And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause:Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries:The tumult of those that rise up against thee {Or, which ascendeth}ascendeth continually.
By the rivers of Babylon,There we sat down, yea, we wept,When we remembered Zion.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Upon the willows in the midst thereofWe hanged up our harps.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
Israel is a {Hebrew: scattered.}hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
And when they came unto the nations, whither they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Jehovah, and are gone forth out of his land.
But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, whither they went.
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: {Or, I work not for &c.}I do not this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither ye went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before {Or, according to another reading, your}their eyes.
They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me;All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it:Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, {Isaiah 52:5.}even as it is written.
He hath cut off in fierce anger {Or, every horn}all the horn of Israel;He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy:And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
The young men bare the mill;And the children stumbled under the wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate,The young men from their music.
The joy of our heart is ceased;Our dance is turned into mourning.
And in that day, saith Jehovah, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the {Hebrew: Mishneh.}second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.