[1] Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful
robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come
into you the unclean and those without circumcision. [2] Make yourself
clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the
bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion. [3] For the Lord
says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
[4] For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get
a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them
without cause. [5] Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people
are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow,
says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name. [6] For
this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be
certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I. [7] How
beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news,
who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion,
Your God is ruling! [8] The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud
in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes
back to Zion. [9] Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of
Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up
the cause of Jerusalem. [10] The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the
eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation
of our God. [11] Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing;
go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
[12] For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for
the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to
keep you. [13] See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be
honoured, and lifted up, and be very high. [14] As peoples were surprised
at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was
so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no
longer that of the sons of men. [15] So will nations give him honour; kings
will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them
they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their
ears.
