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So what do I find here? asks Yahweh. My people are taken away for no reason. Their rulers are screaming, declares Yahweh. And my name is cursed all day long. Now my people will know my name. When that day comes, they will know that I am the one who says, “Here I am!”

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger
    who announces the good news, “All is well.”
        He brings the good news,
            announces salvation,
                and tells Zion that its Elohim rules as king.

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“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