1. Awake, awake,put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments,O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into youthe uncircumcised and the unclean.
2. Shake yourself from the dust and arise;be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck,O captive daughter of Zion.
3. For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.”
4. For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.
5. Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.