Yahweh Redeems Zion

• Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem,[fn]
  • For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not[fn] enter you any longer.
• 2 the dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem! Free yourselves from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!
• 3 For thus says Yahweh:“You were sold for nothing,
  • and you shall be redeemed without money.”

4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh:“My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him without cause.[fn] 5 And now what do I have here?”declares[fn] Yahweh, “for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl,” declares[fn] Yahweh—“and my name is reviled continually, all day. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. Here am I.”[fn]

• 7 who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation,
• who says to Zion, “Your God reigns as a king.”
• 8 [fn] of your watchmen! They lift up their voices;[fn] together they sing for joy;
  • for they[fn] see Yahweh’s return to Zion.
• 9  sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem,
• for Yahweh has comforted his people;
  • he has redeemed Jerusalem.
  • 10 [fn] to the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends[fn] of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
  • 11  Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
  • 12  and you shall not go in flight,
• for Yahweh is going before you,
  • and your rear guard is the God of Israel.