Isaiah 52
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 52, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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.
Isaiah 52:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shake thyself from the dust; arise, {and} sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Isaiah 52:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah 52:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day {is} blasphemed.
Isaiah 52:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore {they shall know} in that day that I {am} he that doth speak: behold, {it is} I.
Isaiah 52:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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!
Isaiah 52:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Isaiah 52:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 52:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The 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.
Isaiah 52:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean {thing}; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
Isaiah 52:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel {will be} your rereward. {be...: Heb. gather you up}
Isaiah 52:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. {deal...: or, prosper}
Isaiah 52:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Isaiah 52:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for {that} which had not been told them shall they see; and {that} which they had not heard shall they consider.
Isaiah 52:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.