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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city! For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For this is what the LORD says: "You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For this is what the sovereign LORD says: "In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And now, what do we have here?" says the LORD. "Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt," says the LORD, "and my name is constantly slandered all day long. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says, 'Here I am.'" |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Listen, your watchmen shout; in unison they shout for joy, for they see with their very own eyes the LORD's return to Zion. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In unison give a joyful shout, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD consoles his people; he protects Jerusalem. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The LORD reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don't touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the LORD's holy items! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. For the LORD goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Look, my servant will succeed! He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted-- |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14(just as many were horrified by the sight of you) he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15his form was so marred he no longer looked human--so now he will startle many nations. Kings will be shocked by his exaltation, for they will witness something unannounced to them, and they will understand something they had not heard about. |
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