¹O Jerusalem, take off the garment of your sadness and pain.

Put on forever the beautiful glory that comes from God.

²Wrap the cloak of God’s righteousness around you,

and crown yourself with glory from the Eternal One.

³For God will reveal your splendor

to everyone under heaven.

⁴God will give you a name that will last forever:

“The Peace of Justice, and the Glory of Godliness.”

⁵Arise, Jerusalem! Go to a high point

and look toward the east.

See your children gathered together from west and east

by the command of the Holy One.

Rejoice that God has remembered them.

⁶Although they left you on foot,

led away by their enemies,

God will bring them back to you,

carried in glory as on a royal throne.

⁷For God has ordered the leveling of every high mountain

and of the everlasting hills.

The valleys will be filled up to make the ground level

so that Israel may walk safely in God’s glory.

⁸The forests and every fragrant tree

will give Israel shade at God’s command.

⁹For God will lead Israel with joy,

in the light of his glory,

with his mercy and righteousness.