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^(C1)Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, Zion; Clothe yourself with your ^(C2)beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the ^(C3)holy city; For the uncircumcised and the ^(C4)unclean Will no longer come into you.

Shake yourself ^(C1)from the dust, ^(C2)rise up, Captive Jerusalem; ^(C3)Release yourself from the chains around your neck, Captive daughter of Zion.

For this is what the LORD says: "You were ^(C1)sold for nothing, and you will be ^(C2)redeemed ^(C3)without money."

For this is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD says: "My people ^(C1)went down to Egypt first to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without reason.

"And now, what do I have here," declares the LORD, "seeing that My people have been taken away without reason?" Again the LORD declares, "Those who rule over them howl, and My ^(C1)name is continually reviled all day long.

"Therefore, My people shall ^(C1)know My name; therefore on that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'"

How delightful on the mountains Are the feet of one who brings ^(C1)good news, Who announces ^(F1)peace And brings good news of ^(F2)happiness, Who announces salvation, And says to Zion, "Your ^(C2)God ^(F3)reigns!"

Listen! Your watchmen raise their ^(C1)voices, They shout joyfully together; For they will see ^(F1)with their own eyes When the LORD restores Zion.

^(C1)Be cheerful, shout joyfully together, You ^(C2)ruins of Jerusalem; For the LORD has comforted His people, He has ^(C3)redeemed Jerusalem.

The LORD has bared His holy ^(C1)arm In the sight of all the nations, ^(F1)So that ^(C2)all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God.

^(C1)Depart, depart, go out from there, ^(C2)Do not touch what is unclean; Go out of the midst of her, ^(C3)purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the LORD.

But you will not go out in ^(C1)a hurry, Nor will you go ^(F1)as fugitives; For the ^(C2)LORD will go before you, And ^(C3)the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

Behold, My ^(C1)Servant will prosper, He will be high and lifted up and ^(F1)greatly ^(C2)exalted.

Just as many were appalled at you, My people, So His ^(C1)appearance was marred beyond that of a man, And His form beyond the sons of mankind.

So ^(F1)He will ^(C1)sprinkle many nations, Kings will ^(C2)shut their mouths on account of Him; For ^(C3)what they had not been told, they will see, And what they had not heard, they will understand.

^(C1)Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

For He grew up before Him like a ^(C1)tender ^(F1)shoot, And like a root out of dry ground; He has ^(C2)no stately form or majesty That we would look at Him, Nor an appearance that we would take pleasure in Him.

He was ^(C1)despised and abandoned by men, A man of ^(F1)great pain and ^(C2)familiar with sickness; And like one from whom people hide their faces, He was ^(C3)despised, and we had no ^(C4)regard for Him.

However, it was our sicknesses that He Himself ^(C1)bore, And our pains that He carried; Yet we ourselves assumed that He had been afflicted, Struck down by ^(C2)God, and humiliated.

But He was ^(F1)pierced for ^(C1)our offenses, He was crushed for ^(C2)our wrongdoings; The ^(C3)punishment for our ^(F2)well-being was laid upon Him, And by ^(C4)His wounds we are healed.

All of us, like sheep, have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the wrongdoing of us all To ^(F1)fall on Him.

He was oppressed and afflicted, Yet He did not ^(C1)open His mouth; ^(C2)Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.

By oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who considered That He was cut off from the land of the ^(F1)living ^(C1)For the wrongdoing of my people, to whom the blow was due?

And His grave was assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a ^(C1)rich man in His death, ^(C2)Because He had ^(C3)done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

But the LORD desired To ^(C1)crush Him, ^(F1)(C2)causing Him grief; If He renders ^(F2)Himself as a guilt ^(C3)offering, He will see ^(C4)His ^(F3)offspring, He will prolong His days, And the ^(F4)good ^(C5)pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

As a result of the ^(F1)anguish of His soul, He will ^(F2)(C1)see it and be satisfied; By His ^(C2)knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, For He will ^(C3)bear their wrongdoings.

Therefore, I will allot Him a ^(C1)portion with the great, And He will divide the plunder with the strong, Because He poured out His ^(F1)(C2)life unto death, And was ^(C3)counted with wrongdoers; Yet He Himself ^(C4)bore the sin of many, And interceded for the wrongdoers.

"^(C1)Shout for joy, infertile one, you who have not given birth to any child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor; For the sons of the ^(C2)desolate one will be ^(C3)more numerous Than the sons of the married woman," says the LORD.

"^(C1)Enlarge the place of your tent; ^(F1)Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them; Lengthen your ^(C2)ropes And strengthen your ^(C2)pegs.

-"For you will ^(C1)spread out to the right and to the left. And your ^(F1)descendants will ^(C2)possess nations And will ^(C3)resettle the desolate cities.

"Fear not, for you will ^(C1)not be put to shame; And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the ^(C2)shame of your youth, And no longer remember the ^(C3)disgrace of your widowhood.

-"For your ^(C1)husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of armies; And your ^(C2)Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the ^(C3)God of all the earth.

-"For the LORD has called you, Like a wife ^(C1)forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected," Says your God.

"^(F1)For a ^(C1)brief moment I abandoned you, But with great compassion I will ^(C2)gather you.

-"In an ^(F1)(C1)outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting ^(C2)favor I will ^(C3)have compassion on you," Says the LORD your ^(C4)Redeemer.

"For ^(F1)this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I swore that the waters of Noah Would ^(C1)not ^(F2)flood the earth again; So I have sworn that I will ^(C2)not be angry with you Nor rebuke you.

-"For the ^(C1)mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My ^(F1)favor will not be removed from you, Nor will My ^(C2)covenant of peace be shaken," Says ^(C3)the LORD who has compassion on you.

"^(C1)Afflicted one, storm-tossed, and ^(C2)not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, And I will ^(C3)lay your foundations with ^(F1)(C4)sapphires.

-"Moreover, I will make your battlements of ^(F1)rubies, And your gates of ^(F2)crystal, And your entire ^(F3)wall of precious stones.

-"^(C1)All your sons will be ^(F1)taught by the LORD; And the well-being of your sons will be ^(C2)great.

-"In ^(C1)righteousness you will be established; You will be far from ^(C2)oppression, for you will ^(C3)not fear; And from ^(C4)terror, for it will not come near you.

-"If anyone fiercely attacks you, it will not be from Me. ^(C1)Whoever attacks you will fall because of you.

-"Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows on the fire of coals And produces a weapon for its work; And I have created the destroyer to inflict ruin.

-"^(C1)No weapon that is formed against you will succeed; And you will condemn ^(C2)every tongue that ^(F1)accuses you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their ^(C3)vindication is from Me," declares the LORD.