Isaiah 52:1-6
Awake, Zion, for Your Redeemer is acting.
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 Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”
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 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 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”
Awake, Zion, for your Redeemer is acting.
To summon Zion to renewed identity and announce the LORD’s redemptive action and self-revelation.
Addressing a people in exile and humiliation, the passage calls Jerusalem to rise from degradation and anticipate restoration through divine intervention.
Zion Awakes, the Good News Is Announced, and the Servant Is Exalted
The LORD awakens Zion with good news of his reign and salvation, calls his redeemed people to holy departure, and unveils the Servant whose shocking humiliation leads to exaltation before the nations.