1 “Wake up, wake up;put on your strength, Zion!Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the Holy City! For the uncircumcised and the uncleanwill no longer enter you.
2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!Take your seat, Jerusalem.Remove the bonds from your neck,captive Daughter Zion.”
3 For this is what the Lord says:“You were sold for nothing,and you will be redeemed without silver.”
4 For this is what the Lord God says:“At first My people went down to Egypt to live there, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
5 So now what have I here” —this is the Lord’s declaration —“that My people are taken away for nothing?Its rulers wail” —this is the Lord’s declaration —“and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
6 Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that daythat I am He who says:Here I am.”
7 How beautiful on the mountainsare the feet of the herald,who proclaims peace,who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation,who says to Zion, “Your God reigns! ”
8 The voices of your watchmen —they lift up their voices,shouting for joy together;for every eye will seewhen the Lord returns to Zion.
9 Be joyful, rejoice together,you ruins of Jerusalem! For the Lord has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has displayed His holy armin the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will seethe salvation of our God.
11 Leave, leave, go out from there! Do not touch anything unclean;go out from her, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you will not leave in a hurry, and you will not have to take flight;because the Lord is going before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
13 See, My Servant will act wisely; He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
14 Just as many were appalled at You —His appearance was so disfiguredthat He did not look like a man,and His form did not resemble a human being —
15 so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him,For they will see what had not been told them,and they will understand what they had not heard.