Isaiah Chapter 52

English (Douay-Rheims)

1 Arise, arise, put on thy strength, O Sion, put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the city of the Holy One: for henceforth the uncircumcised, and unclean shall no more pass through thee.
2 Shake thyself from the dust, arise, sit up, O Jerusalem: loose the bonds from off thy neck, O captive daughter of Sion.
3 For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord God: My people went down into Egypt at the beginning to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without any cause at all.
5 And now what have I here, saith the Lord: for my people is taken away gratis. They that rule over them treat them unjustly, saith the Lord, and my name is continually blasphemed all the day long.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name in that day: for I myself that spoke, behold I am here.

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him that showeth forth good, that preacheth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy God shall reign!
8 The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their voice, they shall praise together: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall convert Sion.
9 Rejoice, and give praise together, O ye deserts of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make haste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.

13 Behold my servant shall understand, he shall be exalted, and extolled, and shall be exceeding high.
14 As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.
15 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.

Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899

Latin (Clementine Vulgate)

1 Consurge, consurge, induere fortitudine tua, Sion!
induere vestimentis gloriæ tuæ,
Jerusalem, civitas Sancti,
quia non adjiciet ultra ut pertranseat per te
incircumcisus et immundus.
2 Excutere de pulvere, consurge;
sede, Jerusalem!
solve vincula colli tui,
captiva filia Sion.
3 Quia hæc dicit Dominus:
Gratis venundati estis,
et sine argento redimemini.
4 Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus:
In Ægyptum descendit populus meus in principio, ut colonus esset ibi,
et Assur absque ulla causa calumniatus est eum.
5 Et nunc quid mihi est hic, dicit Dominus,
quoniam ablatus est populus meus gratis?
Dominatores ejus inique agunt, dicit Dominus,
et jugiter tota die nomen meum blasphematur.
6 Propter hoc sciet populus meus nomen meum
in die illa:
quia ego ipse qui loquebar, ecce adsum.

7 Quam pulchri super montes pedes annuntiantis
et prædicantis pacem;
annuntiantis bonum,
prædicantis salutem,
dicentis Sion:
Regnabit Deus tuus!
8 Vox speculatorum tuorum: levaverunt vocem,
simul laudabunt,
quia oculo ad oculum videbunt
cum converterit Dominus Sion.
9 Gaudete, et laudate simul,
deserta Jerusalem,
quia consolatus est Dominus populum suum;
redemit Jerusalem.
10 Paravit Dominus brachium sanctum suum
in oculis omnium gentium;
et videbunt omnes fines terræ
salutare Dei nostri.
11 Recedite, recedite; exite inde,
pollutum nolite tangere;
exite de medio ejus; mundamini,
qui fertis vasa Domini.
12 Quoniam non in tumultu exibitis,
nec in fuga properabitis;
præcedet enim vos Dominus,
et congregabit vos Deus Israël.

13 Ecce intelliget servus meus,
exaltabitur et elevabitur, et sublimis erit valde.
14 Sicut obstupuerunt super te multi,
sic inglorius erit inter viros aspectus ejus,
et forma ejus inter filios hominum.
15 Iste asperget gentes multas;
super ipsum continebunt reges os suum:
quia quibus non est narratum de eo viderunt,
et qui non audierunt contemplati sunt.

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