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

For thus says the Lord: (C)“You were sold for nothing, and (D)you shall be redeemed without money.” For thus says the Lord God: (E)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late

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