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“Now therefore, what[a] am I doing here,” asks[b] the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Those who rule over them are deluded,”[c] says the Lord, “and continuously, all the day long, my name is blasphemed. Therefore my people will know my name; in that day[d] they’ll know that it is I who speaks, ‘Here I am!’

“How beautiful[e] on the mountains
    are the feet of the one who brings news of peace,[f]
who announces good things,
    who announces salvation,[g]
        who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’

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  1. Isaiah 52:5 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads who
  2. Isaiah 52:5 Lit. declares
  3. Isaiah 52:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read them wail; or them taunt
  4. Isaiah 52:6 So 1QIsaa LXX. MT reads therefore in that day
  5. Isaiah 52:7 Lit. they are beautiful; so 1QIsaa MTT LXXmss; 4QIsab reads It is beautiful
  6. Isaiah 52:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read who brings good news
  7. Isaiah 52:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads who announces peace, who brings news of good things, who announces salvation; cf. LXX

“And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord.

“For my people have been taken away for nothing,
    and those who rule them mock,[a]
declares the Lord.
“And all day long
    my name is constantly blasphemed.(A)
Therefore my people will know(B) my name;(C)
    therefore in that day(D) they will know
that it is I who foretold(E) it.
    Yes, it is I.”

How beautiful on the mountains(F)
    are the feet of those who bring good news,(G)
who proclaim peace,(H)
    who bring good tidings,
    who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion,
    “Your God reigns!”(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:5 Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text wail