¹Awake , awake ! Put on your strength , Zion .

Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem , the holy city ,

for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you .

²Shake yourself from the dust !

Arise , sit up , Jerusalem !

Release yourself from the bonds of your neck , captive daughter of Zion !

³For the LORD says , “You were sold for nothing ;

and you will be redeemed without money .”

⁴For the Lord GOD says :

“My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there ;

and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause .

⁵“Now therefore , what do I do here ,” says the LORD ,

“seeing that my people are taken away for nothing ?

Those who rule over them mock,” says the LORD ,

“and my name is blasphemed continually all day long .

⁶Therefore my people shall know my name .

Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks .

Behold , it is I .”

⁷How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news ,

who publishes peace ,

who brings good news ,

who proclaims salvation ,

who says to Zion , “Your God reigns !”

⁸Your watchmen lift up their voice .

Together they sing ;

for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD returns to Zion .

⁹Break out into joy !

Sing together , you waste places of Jerusalem ;

for the LORD has comforted his people .

He has redeemed Jerusalem .

¹⁰The LORD has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations .

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God .

¹¹Depart ! Depart ! Go out from there ! Touch no unclean thing !

Go out from amongst her !

Cleanse yourselves , you who carry the LORD ’s vessels .

¹²For you shall not go out in haste ,

neither shall you go by flight ;

for the LORD will go before you ,

and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

¹³Behold , my servant will deal wisely .

He will be exalted and lifted up ,

and will be very high .

¹⁴Just as many were astonished at you —

his appearance was marred more than any man , and his form more than the sons of men —

¹⁵so he will cleanse many nations .[#52:15 or, sprinkle]

Kings will shut their mouths at him ;

for they will see that which had not been told them ,

and they will understand that which they had not heard .