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1Awake; awake;[#Neh 11.1; Isa 51.9, 17; Mt 4.5; Rev 21.2, 27]
put on your strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city,
for the uncircumcised and the unclean
shall enter you no more.
2Shake yourself from the dust; rise up,[#Isa 9.4; 29.4; 51.14]
O captive Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter Zion!
3For thus says the Lord : You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.[#Ps 44.12; Isa 45.13; 63.4]
4For thus says the Lord God : Long ago, my people went down into Egypt to reside there as aliens; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.[#Gen 46.6]
5Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord , seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord , and continually, all day long, my name is despised.[#Ezek 36.20; Rom 2.24]
6Therefore my people shall know my name; on that day they shall know that it is I who speak—it is I![#Isa 49.23; #52.6 Q ms Syr Vg Tg: MT therefore on]
7How beautiful upon the mountains[#Ps 93.1; Nah 1.15; Rom 10.15]
are the feet of the messenger who announces peace,
who brings good news,
who announces salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
8Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices;[#Isa 62.6]
together they shout for joy,
for in plain sight they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.
9Break forth; shout together for joy,[#Isa 44.23, 26; 48.20]
you ruins of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10The Lord has bared his holy arm[#Ps 98.2, 3; Isa 45.22; 48.20; Lk 3.6]
before the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11Depart, depart, go out from there![#Isa 1.16; Jer 50.8; 2 Cor 6.17; 2 Tim 2.19]
Touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of it; purify yourselves,
you who carry the vessels of the Lord .
12For you shall not go out in haste,[#Ex 12.33; Isa 42.16; 58.8]
and you shall not go in flight,
for the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
13See, my servant shall prosper;[#Isa 42.1; Phil 2.9]
he shall be exalted and lifted up
and shall be very high.
14Just as there were many who were astonished at him[#Ps 22.6, 7; Isa 53.2, 3; #52.14 Syr Tg: Heb you]
—so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of mortals—
15so he shall startle many nations;[#Ezek 36.25; Rom 15.21; #52.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
for that which had not been told them they shall see,
and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.