¹ Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.

² Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.

³ For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

⁴ For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

⁵ And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt,¹ declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.²

1. DSS and Vulgate; MT wail
2. LXX —on account of you My name is blasphemed continually among the Gentiles; cited in Romans 2:24

⁶ Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”

⁷ How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,¹ who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

1. Cited in Romans 10:15

⁸ Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.

⁹ Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing;¹ come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.

1. Cited in 2 Corinthians 6:17

The Servant Exalted

(Philippians 2:5–11)

¹² For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

¹³ Behold, My Servant will prosper;¹ He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.

1. Or will act wisely

¹⁴ Just as many were appalled at Him¹— His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness—

1. Syriac; Hebrew at You

¹⁵ so He will sprinkle¹ many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.²

1. Or startle
2. LXX For those who were not told will see, and those who have not heard will understand. Cited in Romans 15:21