1. Awake, awake!Put on your strength, O Zion;Put on your beautiful garments,O Jerusalem, the holy city!For the uncircumcised and the uncleanShall no longer come to you.
2. Shake yourself from the dust, arise;Sit down, O Jerusalem!Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,O captive daughter of Zion!
3. For thus says the Lord:“You have sold yourselves for nothing,And you shall be redeemed without money.”
4. For thus says the Lord God:“My people went down at firstInto Egypt to dwell 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 themMake them wail,” says the Lord,“And My name is blasphemed continually every day.