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Deliverance for Jerusalem

Wake up, wake up, O Zion!
Clothe yourself with strength.
Put on your beautiful clothes, O holy city of Jerusalem,
for unclean and godless people will enter your gates no longer.

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The Lord’s Coming Salvation

Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city;
for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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Rise from the dust, O Jerusalem.
Sit in a place of honor.
Remove the chains of slavery from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

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Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.

3

For this is what the LORD says:
“When I sold you into exile,
I received no payment.
Now I can redeem you
without having to pay for you.”

3

For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.”

4

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria.

4

For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.a

5

What is this?” asks the LORD. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation.a My name is blasphemed all day long.b

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Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised.

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But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them.”

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Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”

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How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,
the good news of peace and salvation,
the news that the God of Israelc reigns!

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How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness,
who publishes salvation,
who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

8

The watchmen shout and sing with joy,
for before their very eyes
they see the LORD returning to Jerusalem.d

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The voice of your watchmen — they lift up their voice;
together they sing for joy;
for eye to eye they see
the return of the Lord to Zion.

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Let the ruins of Jerusalem break into joyful song,
for the LORD has comforted his people.
He has redeemed Jerusalem.

9

Break forth together into singing,
you waste places of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.

10

The LORD has demonstrated his holy power
before the eyes of all the nations.
All the ends of the earth will see
the victory of our God.

10

The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.

11

Get out! Get out and leave your captivity,
where everything you touch is unclean.
Get out of there and purify yourselves,
you who carry home the sacred objects of the LORD.

11

Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
you who bear the vessels of the Lord.

12

You will not leave in a hurry,
running for your lives.
For the LORD will go ahead of you;
yes, the God of Israel will protect you from behind.
The LORD’s Suffering Servant

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For you shall not go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
for the Lord will go before you,
and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

13

See, my servant will prosper;
he will be highly exalted.

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He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

Behold, my servant shall act wisely;b
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.

14

But many were amazed when they saw him.e
His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,
and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man.

14

As many were astonished at you —
his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
and his form beyond that of the children of mankind —

15

And he will startlef many nations.
Kings will stand speechless in his presence.
For they will see what they had not been told;
they will understand what they had not heard about.g

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so shall he sprinklec many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
for that which has not been told them they see,
and that which they have not heard they understand.

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