This part calls for Jerusalem to awake, put on strength and splendor, as the Lord will deliver Zion from its enemies and restore its glory. This message is clear: we can’t have “Zion” without “Jerusalem”, and we can’t have “Jerusalem” without “Zion”. The Jewish state, especially its eternal capital, must be a place where the material and spiritual go hand in hand. The message also announces the good news of salvation and peace to the ends of the earth and urges the exiles to depart from Babylon with joy and haste. The passage is part of the larger section of Isaiah that foretells the coming of the suffering servant of the Lord.“

(Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you fell, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. God speaks to us today: “So how much will God do for those who awake, repent and walk right in HIs light.)

It reads in Isaiah 52:1-12 KJV> Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no longer come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people are taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. Therefore, my people shall know my name: therefore, they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak behold, it is I. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that published peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that published salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigns! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing, for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.