[1] Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful
garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come
into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. [2] Shake yourself from the
dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds
of your neck, captive daughter of Zion. [3] For thus says Yahweh, You were
sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money. [4] For thus
says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to
sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause. [5] Now
therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away
for nothing? those who rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name
continually all the day is blasphemed. [6] Therefore my people shall know
my name: therefore [they shall know] in that day that I am he who does
speak; behold, it is I. [7] How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of
him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of
good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, Your God reigns! [8] The
voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for
they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion. [9] Break forth
into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has
comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. [10] Yahweh has made bare
his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth
have seen the salvation of our God. [11] Depart you, depart you, go you out
from there, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; cleanse
yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. [12] For you shall not go
out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before
you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward. [13] Behold, my servant
shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very
high. [14] Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred
more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men), [15] so shall
he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that
which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not
heard shall they understand.
