Beautiful Feet (Isaiah 52:1-10)

The feet of messengers are beautiful if they bear good news.

Here are 5 good reasons to share the good news about Jesus (and to make your feet more beautiful).

“Wake up, wake up;

put on your strength, Zion!

Put on your beautiful garments,

Jerusalem, the holy city!

For the uncircumcised and the unclean

will no longer enter you.

2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!

Take your seat, Jerusalem.

Remove the bonds[fn] from your neck,

captive Daughter Zion.”

3 For this is what the LORD says:

“You were sold for nothing,

and you will be redeemed without silver.”

4 For this is what the Lord GOD says:

“At first my people went down to Egypt to reside there,

then Assyria oppressed them without cause.[fn]

5 So now what have I here” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“that my people are taken away for nothing?

Its rulers wail” —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

“and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.

6 Therefore my people will know my name;

therefore they will know on that day

that I am he who says,

‘Here I am.’ ”

7 How beautiful on the mountains

are the feet of the herald,

who proclaims peace,

who brings news of good things,

who proclaims salvation,

who says to Zion, “Your God reigns! ”

8 The voices of your watchmen —

they lift up their voices,

shouting for joy together;

for every eye will see

when the LORD returns to Zion.

9 Be joyful, rejoice together,

you ruins of Jerusalem!

For the LORD has comforted his people;

he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 The LORD has displayed his holy arm

in the sight of all the nations;

all the ends of the earth will see

the salvation of our God.