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Shake yourself from the dust and[a] arise,
    and[b] sit on your throne, O Jerusalem!
Loosen the bonds from your neck,
    O captive daughter of Zion.

For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and you’ll be redeemed without money.”

For this is what the Lord[c] says: “My people went down long ago into Egypt to live[d] there; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:2 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsab MT lack and
  2. Isaiah 52:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack and
  3. Isaiah 52:4 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads the Lord God
  4. Isaiah 52:4 Or sojourn