Isaiah 52:2

52:2 Shake off the dirt! ¹ 

Get up, captive ²  Jerusalem!

Take off the iron chains around your neck,

O captive daughter Zion!

Isaiah 60:1

Zion’s Future Splendor

60:1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!

The splendor ³  of the Lord shines on you!

Isaiah 23:12

23:12 He said,

“You will no longer celebrate,

oppressed ⁴  virgin daughter Sidon!

Get up, travel to Cyprus,

but you will find no relief there.” ⁵ 

Isaiah 51:17

51:17 Wake up! Wake up!

Get up, O Jerusalem!

You drank from the cup the Lord passed to you,

which was full of his anger! ⁶ 

You drained dry

the goblet full of intoxicating wine. ⁷ 

[52:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Shake yourself free from the dirt.”

[52:2]  ² tc The Hebrew text has שְּׂבִי (shÿvi), which some understand as a feminine singular imperative from יָשַׁב (yashav, “sit”). The LXX, Vulgate, Syriac, and the Targum support the MT reading (the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a does indirectly). Some interpret this to mean “take your throne”: The Lord exhorts Jerusalem to get up from the dirt and sit, probably with the idea of sitting in a place of honor (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:361). However, the form is likely a corruption of שְׁבִיָּה (shÿviyyah, “captive”), which appears in the parallel line.

[60:1]  ³ tn Or “glory” (so most English versions).

[23:12]  ⁵ tn Or “violated, raped,” the point being that Daughter Sidon has lost her virginity in the most brutal manner possible.

[23:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “[to the] Kittim, get up, cross over; even there there will be no rest for you.” On “Kittim” see the note on “Cyprus” at v. 1.

[51:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “[you] who have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his anger.”

[51:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “the goblet, the cup [that causes] staggering, you drank, you drained.”