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.
6. Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
7. How beautiful upon the mountainsare the feet of him who brings good news,who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,who publishes salvation,who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”