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1.    Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy  beautiful garments, 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 down, Jerusalem:  loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, captive daughter of  Zion.
 
3.    For thus saith Jehovah: Ye have sold yourselves for nought,  and ye shall be redeemed without money.
 
4.    For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: My people went down at the  first into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria oppressed them  without cause;
 
5.    and now, what have I here, saith Jehovah, that my people  hath been taken away for nought? They that rule over them make  them to howl, saith Jehovah; and continually all the day is my  name scorned.
 
6.    Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore they  shall know in that day that I am HE, that saith, Here am I.
 
7.    How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that  announceth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; that announceth  glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith  unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
 
8.    -- The voice of thy watchmen, they lift up the voice, they  sing aloud together; for they shall see eye to eye, when  Jehovah shall bring again Zion.
 
9.    Break forth, sing aloud together, waste places of  Jerusalem; for Jehovah comforteth his people, he hath redeemed  Jerusalem.
 
10.    Jehovah hath made bare his holy arm in the sight of all  the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the  salvation of our God.
 
11.    -- Depart, depart, go out from thence, touch not what is  unclean; go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, that bear the  vessels of Jehovah.
 
12.    For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for  Jehovah will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your  rear-guard.
 
13.    Behold, my servant shall deal prudently; he shall be  exalted and be lifted up, and be very high.
 
14.    As many were astonished at thee -- his visage was so  marred more than any man, and his form more than the children  of men
 
15.    -- so shall he astonish many nations; kings shall shut  their mouths at him: for what had not been told them shall they  see, and what they had not heard shall they consider.