1 Awake! Wake up, π! Clothe yourself with [YAH's] strength, [people of shining mount] Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, [you] sacred City-Of-Peace. Never again [let] unclean, unrefined [heathens] infiltrate your [holy] populace. Literally: βun-trimmedβ, not referring to penile circumcision, but to spiritual βheart-surgeryβ.2 π, shake yourself from the dust! Rise up and take your throne, City-Of-Peace! Captive daughter-population of [mount] Zion, free yourself from the chains around your neck! Great Isaiah 52:2 song: Shake Off Your Dust!3 YHVH says, βπ, you sold yourselves for nothing! So [I'm] buying you back without money.β4 Adonai YHVH reminds you, π, β[As in] antiquity, my [βmodernβ] people [repeatedly] choose to descend into βEgyptβ to squat there [as aliens]. [Then,] the Assyrian [Pharaoh] oppresses [my people] for no reason. Gen 46:6, Ex 1:8. You go to the world-system for benefits, then you end up getting oppressed. Listen up, Social Security / Social Insurance participants! Avoid the S.I.N. number like the plague it is.5 βSo now look, π,β warns YHVH. βOver and over my people get kidnapped for nothing. [Worldly] dominators [press] howls [from Judeo-Christians' tortured] mouths,β laments YHVH. β[The oppressors] blaspheme my Name 24/7/365.β This oppression jumped into the nominally Christian countries in 2020, in the form of congregational-worship bans in the U.S., Spain, the U.K, Australia, etc.6 Finally [you], my people, acknowledge my Name-Authority, π. [I save you.] The day [dawns when you] realize that I am the only [being] who foretells [the future. At last you] see that I'm [your only hope].β7 How beautiful, π! Upon the mountains [spring] the feet of the bringer of good news, [the prophet] who announces peace, who brings joyful tidings of blessing, who proclaims salvation; who trumpets to [the people of Mount] Zion, βYour Elohim reigns!β8 [Envision the coming day] when YHVH restores Zion, π. Your watchmen raise the call! With one voice they scream-for-joy! They see [heaven's messengers] face to face! 9 Burst into shrieks-of-joy together, you decayed [neighborhoods] of Jerusalem. YHVH again comforts his people, π. He keeps redeeming [the] City-Of-Peace. 10 YHVH bares his holy arm in the sight of all the beast-nations. All the ends of the earth [finally] watch our Elohim save [us, π]. 11 Leave! Leave, π! Get out of [Babylon]! Never touch corruption. Flee from the cesspool of [spiritual pollution]. You who bear the [bodily] vessels of YHVH, get clean [and stay clean]! Your human body is a vessel for spirits.12 Leave [Babylon in confidence, π], not in terror. [For] YHVH advances before you. The Elohim of Israel [marches as] your rear-guard. 13 [YAH foretells,] β[The world] watches my obeyer prosper, π. I lift him high, soaring above [the evil world].14 [Thousands of people stare] dumbstruck [as soldiers beat my servant's body until he's] more disfigured than any man, [looking more like a monster than] a son of Adam, π. Simultaneously a prediction of the Messiah's crucifixion, and the repeated history of YAH's people getting beat up by the world-system.15 Yet [the Messiah] makes thousands of beast-nations jump for joy, π. Kings shut their mouths in awe of the untold visions and unheard-of thoughts [the Messiah reveals].β jump = nazah, not zarak (sprinkle). This also refers to how YHVH's people bless the world. |