1 Ontwaak, ontwaak, beklee jou met sterkte, o Sion, trek jou sierlike klere aan, o Jerusalem, heilige stad! Want in jou sal verder geen onbesnedene of onreine meer kom nie.
2 Skud jou los uit die stof, staan op, sit neer, o Jerusalem! Maak los die bande aan jou hals, o gevangene, dogter van Sion!
3 Want so sê die HERE: Vir niks is julle verkoop, julle sal ook sonder geld gelos word.
4 Want so sê die Here HERE: In vroeër dae het my volk afgetrek na Egipte om daar as vreemdeling te vertoef, en Assur het hom sonder rede verdruk.
5 Maar nou, wat vind Ek hier? spreek die HERE; want my volk is vir niks weggeneem, sy oorheersers maak geraas, spreek die HERE, en my Naam word gedurigdeur die hele dag gelaster.
6 Daarom sal my volk my Naam leer ken; daarom sal hulle weet op die dag dat dit Ek is wat spreek: Hier is Ek!
7 Hoe lieflik is op die berge die voete van hom wat die goeie boodskap bring, wat vrede laat hoor, wat goeie tyding bring, wat verlossing uitroep; wat aan Sion sê: Jou God is Koning!
8 Hoor! Jou wagte! Hulle verhef die stem, hulle jubel almal saam; want hulle sien vlak voor hulle oë hoe die HERE terugkeer na Sion.
9 Breek uit, jubel almal saam, puinhope van Jerusalem! Want die HERE het sy volk getroos, Jerusalem verlos.
10 Die HERE het sy heilige arm ontbloot voor die oë van al die nasies, en al die eindes van die aarde sal sien die heil van onse God.
11 Vertrek, vertrek, gaan weg daarvandaan, raak nie aan wat onrein is nie; gaan uit hulle midde uit, reinig julle, draers van die heilige voorwerpe van die HERE!
12 Want julle sal nie baie haastig weggaan en nie soos vlugtelinge vertrek nie; want die HERE trek voor julle uit, en die God van Israel is julle agterhoede.
13 Kyk, my Kneg sal voorspoedig wees, Hy sal hoog en verhewe, ja, baie hoog word.
14 Soos baie hulle oor U verstom het -- so misvormd was sy voorkoms, geen mens meer nie, en sy gestalte was nie soos die van 'n mensekind nie --
15 so sal Hy baie nasies laat opspring, konings sal hulle mond oor Hom toehou; want wat aan hulle nie vertel is nie, sien hulle; en wat hulle nie gehoor het nie, word hulle gewaar.
1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
2 Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
5 Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
6 For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
9 Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
13 See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
14 As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
15 So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.