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Hope for Captive Zion

^1 (C1)Awake, awake,
Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion;
Clothe yourself in your ^(C2)glorious garments,
O Jerusalem, the ^(C3)holy city;
For the uncircumcised and the ^(C4)unclean
Will no longer come into you.

² Shake yourself ^(C1)from the dust, ^(C2)rise up,
O captive Jerusalem;
^(C3)Loose yourself from the chains around your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

³ For thus says Yahweh, "You were ^(C1)sold for nothing, and you will be ^(C2)redeemed ^(C3)without money."⁴ For thus says Lord Yahweh, "My people ^(C1)went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.⁵ "So now, what do I have here," declares Yahweh, "since My people have been taken away for nothing?" Yahweh declares, "Those who rule over them howl, and My ^(C1)name is continually blasphemed all day long.⁶ "Therefore My people shall ^(C1)know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'"

⁷ How lovely on the mountains
Are the feet of him who proclaims ^(C1)good news,
Who ^(F1)announces ^(F2)peace
And proclaims good news of good things,
Who ^(F1)announces salvation,
And says to Zion, "Your ^(C2)God ^(F3)reigns!"

⁸ The voice of Your watchmen! They lift up their ^(C1)voices;
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see ^(F1)with their own eyes
When Yahweh returns to Zion.

^9 (C1)Break forth, shout joyfully together,
You ^(C2)waste places of Jerusalem;
For Yahweh has comforted His people;
He has ^(C3)redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Yahweh has bared His holy ^(C1)arm
In the sight of all the nations,
^(F1)That ^(C2)all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.

^11 (C1)Depart, depart, go out from there,
^(C2)Touch nothing unclean;
Go out of the midst of her, ^(C3)purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of Yahweh.

¹² But you will not go out in ^(C1)haste,
Nor will you go as those who flee;
For ^(C2)Yahweh will go before you,
And ^(C3)the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

The Exalted Servant

¹³ Behold, My ^(C1)Servant will prosper;
He will be high and lifted up and ^(F1)greatly ^(C2)exalted.

¹⁴ Just as many were appalled at you, My people,
So His ^(C1)appearance was marred more than any man
And His form more than the sons of men.

¹⁵ Thus He will ^(C1)sprinkle many nations,
Kings will ^(C2)shut their mouths on account of Him;
For ^(C3)what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.