AWAKE, awake; put
on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for
henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean.
02 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit
down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands
of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
03 For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold
yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed
without money.
04 For thus saith the Lord God, My people went
down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and
the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
05 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the
Lord, that my people is taken away for nought?
they that rule over them make them to howl, saith
the Lord; and my name continually every day is
blasphemed.
06 Therefore my people shall know my name:
therefore they shall know in that day that I am
he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
07 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of
good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto
Zion, Thy God reigneth!
08 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the
voice together shall they sing: for they shall
see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again
Zion.
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09 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste
places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted
his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the
eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the
earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,
touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of
her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the
Lord.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by
flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the
God of Israel will be your rereward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he
shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was
so marred more than any man, and his form more
than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings
shall shut their mouths at him: for that which
had not been told them shall they see; and that
which they had not heard shall they consider.
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