Read Isa. 52:1-15
Whenever the Bible says something twice in one verse it means it will happen soon. Isaiah admonishes them to awake twice. "Awake" in the Hebrew means "open your eyes". Isaiah wants them to open their spiritual eyes and know that God is going to deliver them soon from the Assyrians. It is time to take off their sack cloth and put on beautiful garments because God is going to do something beautiful and he wants them dressed for the occasion. He tells them to rid themselves of all the Babylonian influence they have slipped into and return with their whole heart to the Lord. They have lived with a people who blaspheme God but... "no more". God is about to bring Jesus on the scene who will bring salvation and peace and comfort to his people. Their job is to cleanse their selves of sin and the unclean things of their captors. When they leave Babylon they will not be fleeing in a hurry but God will go before them and lead them out like he did with Moses. This great deliverer will amaze the people because his physical appearance will be disfigured worse than any they had ever seen. But with his speech he will amaze kings that don't even know about him.
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