Hope for Captive Zion
aAwake, awake,
Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;
Clothe yourself in your bglorious garments,
O Jerusalem, the choly city;
For the uncircumcised and the dunclean
Will no longer come into you.
2 Shake yourself afrom the dust, brise up,
O captive Jerusalem;
cLoose yourself from the chains around your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says Yahweh, “You were asold for nothing, and you will be bredeemed cwithout money.” 4 For thus says Lord Yahweh, “My people awent down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 So now, what do I have here,” declares Yahweh, “since My people have been taken away for nothing?” Yahweh declares, “Those who rule over them howl, and My aname is continually blasphemed all day long. 6 Therefore My people shall aknow My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”
7 How lovely on the mountains
Are the feet of him who proclaims agood news,
Who announces peace
And proclaims good news of good things,
Who announces salvation,
And says to Zion, “Your bGod reigns!”
8 The voice of Your watchmen! They lift up their avoices;
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see with their own eyes
When Yahweh returns to Zion.
9 aBreak forth, shout joyfully together,
You bwaste places of Jerusalem;
For Yahweh has comforted His people;
He has credeemed Jerusalem.
10 Yahweh has bared His holy aarm
In the sight of all the nations,
That ball the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.
11 aDepart, depart, go out from there,
bTouch nothing unclean;
Go out of the midst of her, cpurify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
12 But you will not go out in ahaste,
Nor will you go as those who flee;
For bYahweh will go before you,
And cthe God of Israel will be your rear guard.
The Exalted Servant
13 Behold, My aServant will prosper;
He will be high and lifted up and greatly bexalted.
14 Just as many were appalled at you, My people,
So His aappearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.
15 Thus He will asprinkle many nations,
Kings will bshut their mouths on account of Him;
For cwhat had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.