Isaiah

¹ Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; Clothe yourself in your glorious garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer come into you.

² O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

³ For thus says Yahweh, “You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.”

⁴ For thus says Lord Yahweh, “My people went 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 name is continually blasphemed all day long.

⁶ Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”

⁷ Are the feet of him who proclaims good news, Who announces peace And proclaims good news of good things, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

⁸ They shout joyfully together; For they will see with their own eyes When Yahweh returns to Zion.

⁹ You waste places of Jerusalem; For Yahweh has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ In the sight of all the nations, That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.

¹¹ Touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

¹² Nor will you go as those who flee; For Yahweh will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

¹³ Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.

¹⁴ So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men.

¹⁵ Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see, And what they had not heard they will understand.