[1] Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean. [2] Shake yourself from the dust, arise,
O captive Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of
Zion. [3] For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall
be redeemed without money. [4] For thus says the Lord GOD: My people went
down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed
them for nothing. [5] Now therefore what have I here, says the LORD, seeing
that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the
LORD, and continually all the day my name is despised. [6] Therefore my
people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is
I who speak; here am I." [7] How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet
of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good
tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God
reigns." [8] Hark, your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing
for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion. [9] Break
forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD
has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. [10] The LORD has
bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of
the earth shall see the salvation of our God. [11] Depart, depart, go out
thence, touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her, purify
yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. [12] For you shall not go
out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before
you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. [13] Behold, my servant
shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
[14] As many were astonished at him-- his appearance was so marred, beyond
human semblance, and his form beyond that of the sons of men-- [15] so
shall he startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of
him; for that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which
they have not heard they shall understand.
