1 "Wake up, wake up;

put on your strength, Zion!

Put on your beautiful garments,  *

Jerusalem, the holy city!  *

For the uncircumcised and the unclean

will 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 reside 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 day

that I am he who says,

‘Here I am.’ "

7 How beautiful on the mountains

are 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 see

when 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 arm

in the sight of all the nations;  *

all the ends of the earth will see

the 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 be successful;  *

he will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.  *

14 Just as many were appalled at you  *  —

his appearance was so disfigured

that 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.  *