1. 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.
2. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit thee down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion,
3. For thus saith the Lord, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4. For thus saith the Lord GOD My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5. Now therefore, what do I here, saith the Lord, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith the Lord, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.