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Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion, || Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem—the Holy City; For the uncircumcised and unclean no longer enter into you again.
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Shake yourself from dust, arise, sit, O Jerusalem, || Bands of your neck have loosed themselves, || O captive daughter of Zion.
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For thus said YHWH: “You have been sold for nothing, || And you are redeemed without money.”
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For thus said Lord YHWH: “My people went down at first || To Egypt to sojourn there, || And Asshur—he has oppressed it for nothing.
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And now, what [have] I here,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “That My people are taken for nothing? Its rulers cause howling,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And My Name is continually despised all the day.
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Therefore My people know My Name, || Therefore, in that day, || Surely I [am] He who is speaking, behold Me.”
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How lovely on the mountains, || Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, || Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, || Sounding salvation, || Saying to Zion, “Your God has reigned.”
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The voice of your watchmen! They have lifted up the voice, together they cry aloud, || Because they see eye to eye, || In YHWH’s turning back [to] Zion.
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Break forth, sing together, || O ruins of Jerusalem, || For YHWH has comforted His people, || He has redeemed Jerusalem.
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YHWH has made His holy arm bare || Before the eyes of all the nations, || And all the ends of the earth have seen || The salvation of our God.
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Turn aside, turn aside, go out from there, || Do not touch the unclean, || Go out from her midst, || Be pure, who are carrying the weapons of YHWH.
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For you do not go out in haste, || Indeed, you do not go on with flight, || For YHWH [is] going before you, || And the God of Israel [is] gathering you!
The Servant Exalted
(Philippians 2:5–11)
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“Behold, My Servant acts wisely, || He is high, and has been lifted up, || And has been very high.”
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As many have been astonished at You || (His appearance so marred by man, || And His form by sons of men),
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So He sprinkles many nations. Kings shut their mouth concerning Him, || For that which was not recounted to them they have seen, || And that which they had not heard they have understood!
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