1 Våkn op, våkn op, iklæ dig din styrke, Sion! Klæ dig i ditt høitidsskrud, Jerusalem, du hellige stad! For ingen uomskåren eller uren skal mere komme inn i dig.
2 Ryst støvet av dig, stå op, ta sete, Jerusalem! Gjør dig løs fra båndene om din hals, du fangne Sions datter!
3 For så sier Herren: For intet blev I solgt, og uten penger skal I bli gjenløst.
4 Ja, så sier Herren, Israels Gud: I sin første tid drog mitt folk ned til Egypten for å bo der som fremmed, og siden undertrykte Assur det uten nogen rett.
5 Og nu, hvad skal jeg gjøre her? sier Herren; for mitt folk er ført bort for intet, dets herskere brøler, sier Herren, og hele dagen igjennem blir mitt navn spottet.
6 Derfor skal mitt folk lære å kjenne mitt navn; derfor skal det på den dag lære å kjenne at jeg er den som sier: Se, her er jeg!
7 Hvor fagre er på fjellene dens føtter som kommer med gledesbud, som forkynner fred, som bærer godt budskap, som forkynner frelse, som sier til Sion: Din Gud er blitt konge!
8 Hør! Dine vektere opløfter sin røst, de jubler alle sammen; for like for sine øine ser de at Herren vender tilbake til Sion.
9 Bryt ut og juble alle sammen, Jerusalems ruiner! For Herren trøster sitt folk, han gjenløser Jerusalem.
10 Herren avdekker sin hellige arm for alle folkenes øine, og alle jordens ender får se vår Guds frelse.
11 Avsted, avsted! Dra ut derfra*! Rør ikke ved noget urent! Dra ut derfra! Rens eder, I som bærer Herrens kar! / {* fra Babel.}
12 For I skal ikke dra ut i hast og ikke fare bort som flyktninger; for Herren går foran eder, og Israels Gud slutter eders tog.
13 Se, min tjener skal gå frem med visdom; han skal bli opløftet og ophøiet og være meget høi.
14 Likesom mange blev forferdet over ham - så ille tilredt var han at han ikke så ut som et menneske, og hans skikkelse ikke var som andre menneskebarns -
15 således skal han få mange folkeferd til å fare op*, for ham skal konger lukke sin munn; for det som ikke var fortalt dem, det har de sett, og det de ikke hadde hørt, det har de fornummet. / {* av forundring. MIK 7, 16. RMR 15, 21.}
1 Awake! awake! put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful robes, O Jerusalem, the holy town: for from now there will never again come into you the unclean and those without circumcision.
2 Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
3 For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
4 For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.
5 Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
6 For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
8 The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.
9 Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.
10 The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
13 See, my servant will do well in his undertakings, he will be honoured, and lifted up, and be very high.
14 As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men.
15 So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.