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| 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean. |
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| 2 Shake thyself from dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem, Bands of thy neck have loosed themselves, O captive, daughter of Zion. |
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| 3 For thus said Jehovah: 'For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.' |
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| 4 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'To Egypt My people went down at first to sojourn there, And Asshur for nought he hath oppressed it. |
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| 5 And now, what to Me here, An affirmation of Jehovah, That taken is My people for nought Its rulers cause howling, an affirmation of Jehovah, And continually all the day My name is despised. |
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| 6 Therefore doth My people know My name, Therefore, in that day, Surely I [am] He who is speaking, behold Me.' |
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| 7 How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, 'Reigned hath thy God.' |
Thy God Reigneth – Referring to the Millennial Reign of Christ Jesus. The word "God" in this verse is Strong's H430 - elohim or eloheem, mighty one(s) – E67:4-5; E68:1. |
| 8 The voice of thy watchmen! They have lifted up the voice, together they cry aloud, Because eye to eye they see, in Jehovah's turning back [to] Zion. |
Thy watchmen – Those who, like the watchman (Pastor Russell), are watching for all the signs of the Lord's return.
Shall lift up the voice – *Note!* It is NOT their own voices which these watchmen lift up, but rather it is "the voice", i.e., the voice of our Returned Lord (1 Thess. 4:16.)
With the voice – Not with their own voices, but with 'the voice' – the voice of Present Truth.
Shall they sing – This is the 'Song of Moses and the Lamb', the song which only the 144,000 can sing (Rev. 14:2,3).
They shall see eye to eye – These will be in perfect agreement on something, but what? We have the answer in the last phrase of the preceeding verse, i.e., "Thy God Reigneth!" These see Jesus' reign as having begun!
When the Lord shall bring again Zion – The heavenly phase of the Kingdom. |
| 9 Break forth, sing together, O wastes of Jerusalem, For Jehovah hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem. |
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| 10 Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The salvation of our God. |
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| 11 Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the weapons of Jehovah. |
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| 12 For not in haste do ye go out, Yea, with flight ye go not on, For going before you [is] Jehovah, And gathering you [is] the God of Israel! |
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| 13 Lo, My servant doth act wisely, He is high, and hath been lifted up, And hath been very high. |
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| 14 As astonished at thee have been many, (So marred by man his appearance, And his form by sons of men.) |
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| 15 So doth he sprinkle many nations. Concerning him kings shut their mouth, For that which was not recounted to them they have seen, And that which they had not heard they have understood! |
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