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.