(A)Rejoice and shout for joy, you inhabitant of Zion,
For (B)great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

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20 (A)Go out from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of (B)joyful shouting, proclaim this,
(C)Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “(D)The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

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20 Leave Babylon,
    flee(A) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy(B)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;(C)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed(D) his servant Jacob.”

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Listen! Your watchmen raise their (A)voices,
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see [a]with their own eyes
When the Lord restores Zion.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:8 Lit eye to eye

Listen! Your watchmen(A) lift up their voices;(B)
    together they shout for joy.(C)
When the Lord returns(D) to Zion,(E)
    they will see it with their own eyes.

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The Fertility of Zion

54 (A)Shout for joy, infertile one, you who have not given birth to any child;
Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor;
For the sons of the (B)desolate one will be (C)more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman,” says the Lord.

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The Future Glory of Zion

54 “Sing, barren woman,(A)
    you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,(B)
    you who were never in labor;(C)
because more are the children(D) of the desolate(E) woman
    than of her who has a husband,(F)
says the Lord.

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