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,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares 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 I am.”
7 How beautiful upon the mountainsare the feet of him who brings good news,who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,who publishes salvation,who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice;together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they seethe 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 armbefore the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall seethe salvation of our God.