¹ Awake, awake!

Put on your strength, O Zion;

put on your glorious garments, O Je ru salem, holy city.

For never will the uncircumcised

or the unclean enter you again.

² Shake the dust off yourself

and rise up, O Jerusalem.

Loose the bonds from your neck,

O captive Daughter of Zion.

³ For thus says Yahweh:

You were sold for no amount,

you will be redeemed without money.

⁴ Thus says the Lord God:

In the beginning

my people lived as aliens in Egypt;

then Assyria oppressed them without reason.

⁵ But now, what am I doing here? says Yahweh. My people have been carried off for no money and their masters make a boast of it; all day long my name is scorned.

⁶ Therefore my people will know my name;

therefore they will know on that day

that it is I who say: “Here I am!”

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those

who bring good news,

who herald peace and happiness,

who proclaim salvation

and announce to Zion: “Your God is king!”

⁸ Together your watchmen

raise their voices in praise and song;

they see Yahweh face to face returning to Zion.

⁹ Break into shouts of joy,

O ruins of Jerusalem,

for Yahweh consoles his people

and redeems Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Yahweh has bared his holy arm

in the eyes of the nations;

all the ends of the earth, in alarm,

will witness God’s salvation.

¹¹ Depart, depart from that nation, come out!

Touch nothing unclean.

Purify yourselves, you who bear

all Yahweh’s holy vessels.

¹² Yet not in escape, or in fright, will you come out,

you will not leave in headlong flight;

for ahead is Yahweh, your vanguard,

and behind, the God of Israel, your rearguard.

Through his punishment, we are made whole

¹³ It is now when my servant will succeed;

he will be exalted and highly praised.

¹⁴ Just as many have been horrified

at his disfigured appearance:

“Is this a man? He does not look like one,”

¹⁵ so will nations be astounded,

kings will stand speechless,

for they will see something never told,

they will witness something never heard of.