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Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks to Zion in the moment of His return, the day His people will know His name (Isa 52:6). The watchmen in the next verse confirm this is the day of the LORD's coming back.
The words — רַגְלֵי (raglei, "feet of") singles out the low, dusty body part as the locus of beauty; מְבַשֵּׂר (mevasser, "one who bears news") identifies the messenger by function, not name.
The thread — Nahum 1:15 repeats nearly the same image ("the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace"). Isaiah 61:1 places the same good-news function on the anointed one; Romans 10:12 extends the Lord's claim to all who call.
Why it lands — The verse makes the messenger's arrival itself the beauty, not the content of the message. It asks the reader to stop treating the good news as something distant and recognize it in the feet of the one who brings it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Cross-references
- Romans 10:12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
- Nahum 1:15 Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Psalms 93:1 The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- Isaiah 40:9 Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”
- Ephesians 6:15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
- Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Isaiah 24:23 The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.
- Psalms 68:11 The Lord gives the command; a great company of women proclaim it: