Dual Panel1Awake, awake, Zion, put on your strength; Jerusalem, Holy City, put on your splendid garments! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will never again come into you.
2Arise, captive Jerusalem, shake off the dust; undo the ropes about your neck, you captive daughter of Zion.
3The LORD says, You were sold but no price was paid, and without payment you will be redeemed.
4The Lord GOD says: At its beginning my people went down into Egypt to live there, and in the end it was the Assyrians who oppressed them.
5But now what do I find here? says the LORD. My people carried off and no price paid, their rulers wailing, and my name reviled increasingly all day long, says the LORD.
6But on that day my people will know my name and know that it is I the LORD who speak; here I am.
7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, the bringer of good news, announcing deliverance, proclaiming to Zion, “Your God has become king.”
8Your watchmen raise their voices and shout together in joy; for with their own eyes they see the LORD return to Zion.
9Break forth together into shouts of joy, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10The LORD has bared his holy arm in the sight of all nations, and the whole world from end to end shall see the deliverance wrought by our God.
11Go out, leave Babylon behind, touch nothing unclean. Leave Babylon behind, keep yourselves pure, you that carry the vessels of the LORD.
12But you will not come out in urgent haste or leave like fugitives; for the LORD will go before you, your rearguard will be Israel's God.
13My servant will achieve success, he will be raised to honour, high and exalted.
14Time was when many were appalled at you, my people; so now many nations recoil at the sight of him, and kings curl their lips in disgust. His form, disfigured, lost all human likeness; his appearance so changed he no longer looked like a man. They see what they had never been told and their minds are full of things unheard before.
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