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¹ "Wake up, wake up;
put on your strength, Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,^(a)
Jerusalem, the Holy City!^(b)
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will no longer enter you.^(c)
2 Stand up, shake the dust off yourself!
Take your seat, Jerusalem.
Remove the bonds^[a] 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."^(d)
4 For this is what the Lord God says:
"At first My people went down to Egypt to live there,^(e)
then Assyria oppressed them without cause.^[b]
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.^(f)
6 Therefore My people will know My name;^(g)
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,^(h)
who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"^(i)
8 The voices of your watchmen^(j)—
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!^(k)
For the Lord has comforted His people;^(l)
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰ The Lord has displayed His holy arm
in the sight of all the nations;^(m)
all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.⁽ⁿ⁾

¹¹ Leave, leave, go out from there!^(o)
Do not touch anything unclean;
go out from her, purify yourselves,^(p)
you who carry the vessels of the Lord.
¹² For you will not leave in a hurry,^(q)
and you will not have to take flight;
because the Lord is going before you,^(r)
and the God of Israel is your rear guard.^(s)

¹³ See, My Servant^[c](t) will act wisely;^[d]
He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.^(u)
14 Just as many were appalled at You^[e]—
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^[f][g] many nations.^[h](v)
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.^(w)