Isaiah 52:1

Hebrew Bible

1 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city. For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you. 2 Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem. Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion. 3 For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.” 4 For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

Baruch 5:1

Deuterocanon

1 Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem, and put on forever the beauty of the glory from God. 2 Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting; 3 for God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven. 4 For God will give you evermore the name, "Righteous Peace, Godly Glory." 5 Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height; look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them.

 Notes and References

"... Baruch 4:30–5:6 can be divided into four passages, each introduced by an imperative addressing Jerusalem. The initial call to take courage (θάρσει, 4:30) recalls the call to take courage (θαρσήσατε) addressed to Zion’s children in the preceding passage (verses 21, 27). It is followed by an announcement of disaster for the three groups of Jerusalem’s enemies and those profiting from Jerusalem’s fall, each of which is introduced by δείλαιοι. The call to look toward the east (4:36) is followed by a description of the return of Jerusalem’s sons, which recalls Isaiah 49:18; 40:4. The relative clause οὓς ἐξαπέστειλας in verse 37, designating Jerusalem as the one having sent her children to exile, creates a link to 4:11. The call to change clothes and put on clothes signifying Jerusalem’s glory (5:1) recalls texts such as Isaiah 52:1; 61:10. Within the context of the poem it takes up and is a reversal of Zion putting on clothes of mourning in verse 20. The motif of God naming Jerusalem in the past (4:30) and in the future (5:4) frames 4:30–5:4. Another call to rise and stand and to look toward the east (5:5) recalls and summarizes 4:36–37. In what follows, the return of Jerusalem’s children is confronted with them going into exile. Verses 7–8 depict the transformation of nature, facilitating the return and recalling Isaiah 40:4–5. Baruch 5:1–9 has a close parallel in Psalm of Solomon 11, though the direction of the relationship is under debate ..."

Erzberger, Johanna "One Author’s Polyphony: Zion and God Parallelized (Bar 4:5–5:9)" in Adams, Sean A. (ed.) Studies on Baruch: Composition, Literary Relations, and Reception (pp. 79-95) De Gruyter, 2016

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