1 A wake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For those who have not gone through the religious act of becoming a Jew and those who are unclean will not come into you any more.

¶ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean shall no longer come into thee.

2 S hake off the dust. Rise up, O Jerusalem, who has been taken into prison. Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O chained people of Zion who are in prison.

Shake thyself from the dust; arise and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

3 F or the Lord says, “You were sold for nothing, and you will be bought without money and made free.”

For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nothing; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

4 F or the Lord God says, “My people went down at first to Egypt to live there. Then the Assyrian made it hard for them without a reason.

For thus has the Lord GOD said, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian captured them without cause.

5 S o now what do I have here,” says the Lord, “Seeing that My people have been taken away for no reason?” The Lord says, “Those who rule over them call out in a loud voice and My name is spoken against all day long.

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nothing? And those among my people that take rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name is continually blasphemed every day.

6 S o My people will know My name. In that day they will know that it is I Who says, ‘Here I am.’”

Therefore my people shall know my name for this reason in that day: for even I that speak, behold, I shall be present.

7 H ow beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who tells of peace and brings good news of happiness, who tells of saving power, and says to Zion, “Your God rules!”

¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes saving health, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigns!

8 L isten! Your watchmen lift up their voices. They call out together for joy, for they will see with their own eyes the return of the Lord to Zion.

The voice of thy watchmen! They shall lift up the voice; together they shall rejoice: for they shall see eye to eye, how the LORD shall return to bring again Zion.

9 B reak out together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem. For the Lord has comforted His people. He has saved Jerusalem.

Sing praises, rejoice together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10 T he Lord has shown His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see that our God saves.

The LORD has made bare the arm of his holiness before the eyes of all the Gentiles; and all the ends of the earth shall see the saving health of our God.

11 L eave, leave, go from them. Touch nothing that is unclean. Leave and make yourselves pure, you who carry the holy objects of the Lord.

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from there, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

12 B ut you will not go out in a hurry. You will not leave as if you were running for your lives. For the Lord will go before you. And the God of Israel will keep watch behind you. The Suffering Servant

For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will gather you together.

13 S ee, My Servant will do well. He will be high and lifted up and honored very much.

¶ Behold, my slave shall be prospered; he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

14 J ust as many looked in wonder at you, My people, so His face was marked worse than any man, and His body more than the sons of men.

As many rejected thee, in such manner was his likeness and his beauty, disfigured from the sons of men:

15 H e will surprise many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. What they had never been told about Him, they will see. And what they had never heard about Him, they will understand.

But he shall sprinkle many Gentiles; the kings shall shut their mouths over him: for that which had not been told them they shall see; and that which they had not heard they shall understand.