God Redeems Jerusalem

52 Awake, awake!

Put on your strength, O Zion;

Put on your beautiful garments,

O Jerusalem, the holy city!

For the uncircumcised aand the unclean

Shall no longer come to you.

2 bShake yourself from the dust, arise;

Sit down, O Jerusalem!

cLoose yourself from the bonds of your neck,

O captive daughter of Zion!

3 For thus says the Lord:

d“You have sold yourselves for nothing,

And you shall be redeemed ewithout money.”

4 For thus says the Lord God:

“My people went down at first

Into fEgypt to 1dwell there;

Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

5 Now therefore, what have I here,” says the Lord,

“That My people are taken away for nothing?

Those who rule over them

2Make them wail,” says the Lord,

“And My name is gblasphemed continually every day.

6 Therefore My people shall know My name;

Therefore they shall know in that day

That I am He who speaks:

‘Behold, it is I.’ ”

7 hHow beautiful upon the mountains

Are the feet of him who brings good news,

Who proclaims peace,

Who brings glad tidings of good things,

Who proclaims salvation,

Who says to Zion,

i“Your God reigns!”