이사야 Chapter 52

Translation: ESV

1

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Key Message

On the day of salvation, God's people are clothed in glory from shame.

▸'Awake, O Zion'—following 'Awake, O arm of the LORD' in 51:9, now Zion itself is commanded to awake.

'Awake, O Zion'—following 'Awake, O arm of the LORD' in 51:9, now Zion itself is commanded to awake. Put on your beautiful garments—express the joy of salvation. No longer be clothed as a captive.

Related Verses

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
7

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, 'Your God reigns.'

Key Message

The gospel is the proclamation that 'God reigns.'

▸This verse is the prototype of the gospel (euangelion).

10

The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Key Message

God's salvation is a public event witnessed by the whole world.

▸'Before the eyes of all the nations'—salvation is accomplished not only for Israel but before all peoples.

13

Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.

Key Message

The servant's humiliation must end in exaltation.

▸This is the introduction to the fourth Servant Song (52:13-53:12).

14

As many were astonished at you—his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind.

Key Message

The Messiah's suffering was beyond what humans could imagine.

▸The extreme description of the servant's humiliation: his appearance was 'so marred, beyond human semblance.

15

so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.

Key Message

The power of the gospel is the wonder that silences kings.

▸At the end of humiliation comes the silence of kings—the silence of astonishment.