1. Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, Zion!Put on your beautiful clothes, holy city of Jerusalem.Godless and evil people will no longer come to you.
2. Shake the dust from yourselves.Get up, captive Jerusalem.Free yourself from the chains around your neck, captive people of Zion.
3. This is what the Lord says: You were sold, but no price was paid. You will be bought back, but without money.
4. This is what the Almighty Lord says: In the beginning my people went to Egypt to live there as foreigners. Later the Assyrians oppressed them for no reason.