52 Awake, awake!
    Put on your strength, O Zion;
put on your beautiful garments,
    O Jerusalem, the holy city.
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
    will no longer enter you.
² Shake yourself from the dust;
    arise, O captive Jerusalem.
Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
    O captive daughter of Zion.

You were sold for nothing,
    and you shall be redeemed without money.

My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there;
    then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

seeing that My people have been taken away for nothing?
    Those who rule over them make them wail,
    says the Lord,
and My name is continually blasphemed
    all day long.
⁶ Therefore, My people shall know My name;
    therefore, they shall know in that day
that I am He who does speak:
    Here I am.

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains
    are the feet of him who brings good news,
who proclaims peace,
    who brings good news of happiness,
    who proclaims salvation,
who says to Zion,
    “Your God reigns!”
⁸ Your watchmen lift up their voices;
    they sing joyfully together;
for they shall see with their own eyes
    when the Lord brings Zion back.
⁹ Break forth into joy, sing together,
    you waste places of Jerusalem.
For the Lord has comforted His people;
    He has redeemed Jerusalem.
¹⁰ The Lord has bared His holy arm
    in the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth shall see
    the salvation of our God.

¹¹ Depart, depart, go out from there,
    touch no unclean thing;
go out of the midst of her; be clean,
    you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
¹² For you 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 rear guard.