1Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion;
put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, holy city;
for never again will the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you.

2Shake yourself off from the dust; arise and sit, Jerusalem;
take off the chain from your neck, captive, daughter of Zion.

3For this is what Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money.”

4For this is what the Lord Yahweh says, “In the beginning my people went down to live temporarily in Egypt; and Assyria has oppressed them for no good reason.

5Now what do I have here—this is Yahweh's declaration—seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock—this is Yahweh's declaration—and my name is blasphemed continually all day long. ²⁸

6Therefore my people will know my name;
they will know in that day that I am the one who says, “Yes, it is I!”

7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,
who announces peace, who bears good tidings, who announces salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

8Listen, your watchmen raise their voices, together they shout for joy,
for they will see, every eye of theirs, Yahweh's return to Zion.

9Break out into joyful singing together, you ruins of Jerusalem;
for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10Yahweh has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations;
all the earth will see the salvation of our God.

11Leave, leave, go out from there; touch nothing unclean;
leave from her midst; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

12For you will not go out in a rush, nor will you leave in a panic;
for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearguard.

13Look, my servant will act wisely;
he will be high and lifted up, and he will be exalted.

14As many were horrified at you—
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man, and his form no longer looked like anything human.

15Even so, my servant will sprinkle many nations and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
For that which they had not been told, they will see, and that which they had not heard, they will understand.