1 Awake, awake, Zion,clothe yourself with strength!Put on your garments of splendour,Jerusalem, the holy city.The uncircumcised and defiledwill not enter you again.
2 Shake off your dust;rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem.Free yourself from the chains on your neck,Daughter Zion, now a captive.
3 For this is what the Lord says:‘You were sold for nothing,and without money you will be redeemed.’
4 For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:‘At first my people went down to Egypt to live;lately, Assyria has oppressed them.
5 ‘And now what do I have here?’ declares the Lord.‘For my people have been taken away for nothing,and those who rule them mock,’declares the Lord.‘And all day longmy name is constantly blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people will know my name;therefore in that day they will knowthat it is I who foretold it.Yes, it is I.’
7 How beautiful on the mountainsare the feet of those who bring good news,who proclaim peace,who bring good tidings,who proclaim salvation,who say to Zion,‘Your God reigns!’