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\c 52
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\q1
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\v 1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion;
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\q1 put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, holy city;
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\q1 for never again will the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you.
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\q1
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\v 2 Shake yourself off from the dust; arise and sit, Jerusalem;
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\q1 take off the chain from your neck, captive, daughter of Zion.
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\v 3 For this is what Yahweh says, "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money."
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\v 4 For this is what the Lord Yahweh says, "In the beginning my people went down into Egypt to live temporarily;
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\q1 Assyria has oppressed them recently.
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\v 5 Now what do I have here—this is Yahweh's declaration—seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock—this is Yahweh's declaration—and my name is slandered continually all day long.
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\f + \ft Instead of \fqa mock \fqb , some versions identify a different Hebrew word meaning \fqa wail \fqb . \f*
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\v 6 Therefore my people will know my name;
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\q1 they will know in that day that I am the one who says, "Yes, it is I!"
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\v 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,
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\q1 who announces peace, who bears good tidings, who announces salvation,
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\q1 who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
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\v 8 Listen, your watchmen raise their voices, together they shout for joy,
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\q1 for they will see, every eye of theirs, Yahweh's return to Zion.
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\v 9 Break out into joyful singing together, you ruins of Jerusalem;
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\q1 for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.
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\v 10 Yahweh has bared his holy arm in the sight of all the nations;
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\q1 all the earth will see the salvation of our God.
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\v 11 Leave, leave, go out from there; touch nothing unclean;
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\q1 leave from her midst; purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
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\v 12 For you will not go out in a rush, nor will you leave in a panic;
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\q1 for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearguard.
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\v 13 Look, my servant will act wisely;
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\q1 he will be high and lifted up, and he will be exalted.
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\v 14 As many were horrified at you—
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\q1 his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man, and his form no longer looked like anything human.
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\v 15 Even so, my servant will sprinkle many nations and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
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\q1 For that which they had not been told, they will see, and that which they had not heard, they will understand.
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