Isaiah 52 brings a message of hope and restoration exhorting Jerusalem to awake and prepare for release from Babylonian captivity. "Awake, O Zion... free yourself from the chains round your neck, O captive daughter of Zion"! The text then proclaims: "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news... of salvation... who say to Zion your God reigns... when the Lord returns to Zion they will see it with their own eyes". Then the people are told to depart from Babylon purifying themselves from it. And the Lord will go before his people and be their rearguard. Then the chapter concludes presenting the servant of the Lord who would suffer extraordinarily prior to being "raised and lifted up and highly exalted".
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