1: Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy
beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there
shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. |
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2: Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem:
loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
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For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
and ye shall be redeemed without money. |
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4: For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without
cause. |
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5: Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my
people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to
howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
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6: Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall
know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I. |
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7: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God
reigneth! |
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8: Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together
shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall
bring again Zion. |
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9: Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem. |
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10: The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the
nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our
God. |
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11: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean
thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels
of the LORD. |
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12: For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the
LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
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13: Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted
and extolled, and be very high. |
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14: As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more
than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: |
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15: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their
mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and
that which they had not heard shall they consider. |