Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 52

Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 52

O Zion, clothe yourself, awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion! Now array
yourself in garments, beautiful, today,
O Holy City, you, Jerusalem;
for the uncircumcised and the unclean
shall never come into your place again.
Shake off the dust and to the throne, ascend,
Jerusalem; the ropes around your neck,
O captive daughter, Zion, loosen them.

For thus the LORD says, It's like you were free
when you were sold, and how you’ll be redeemed?
It’s without payment–money, there’s no need.
My people long ago, the Lord GOD says,
went down to Egypt and, as aliens,
to, there, reside; too, the Assyrians,
for nought, oppressed them.  But now what do I
find here? the LORD says. Paid, there was no price,
when they, my people carried off? They wailed,
their rulers, and all day, my name, reviled 
increasingly, what the LORD says.
Therefore, my people, they shall know my name;
it's therefore, this, what they'll know in that day
that it is I who speak; and here I am.

How, on the mountains, beautiful, the feet
are, of the messenger announcing peace,
who brings good news and who announces this,
salvation, and, to Zion, these words, says,
“Your God is king.” Hark! How they raise a cry,
your watchmen, they, together, shout for joy.
For into Zion, in their sight that’s plain,
they see the LORD’s return.  Together, break
forth into singing, of Jerusalem,
you ruins; for the LORD comforted them,
his people. Bared, the LORD, his holy arm,
before all of their eyes; and the earths’ ends 
shall see our God’s salvation, even then.

Depart, depart, go out from Babylon,
leave it behind. Touch no thing that’s unclean.
Go from its midst and then, yourselves, keep pure,
the vessels of the LORD, you who, them, bear. 

For you shall not come out in urgent haste,
or will you leave like fugitives who’re chased;
for how the LORD is marching at your head
and Israel’s God will serve as your rear guard.

See how my servant will achieve success,
he will grow great and, to great heights, ascend.
As many people, at him, were aghast–
he was disfigured so inhumanly
that he was not, as mortal man, perceived–
so many nations will, astonished, be,
and kings shall curl their lips up in disgust;
for they shall see that which they’d not been told,
and they will contemplate what they’d not heard.