Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 52:1

"Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean." — Isaiah 52:1 (ASV)

Awake, awake ... —The repetition of the burden of Isaiah 51:9, 17, indicates, by a subtle touch of art, the continuity of thought. The call is addressed as before to Zion, as a castaway. It summons her to the highest glory. She is to put on the garments of beauty, which belong to her as the priestly queen of cities. (Compare Exodus 28:2.) The alien and the impure shall no longer ride victorious through her streets, as in Isaiah 51:23. (Compare Ezekiel 44:9, and the picture of the heavenly Jerusalem in Revelation 21:2.)