1. Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Put on your garments of splendor, Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again.
2. Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.
3. For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
4. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.