521 Awake , awake , Clothe yourself in your strength , O Zion ; Clothe yourself in your beautiful garments , O Jerusalem , the holy city ; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer e come into you. 2 Shake yourself from the dust , rise up, O captive Jerusalem ; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck , O captive daughter of Zion . 3 For thus says the Lord , "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money ." 4 For thus says the Lord GOD , "My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there ; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause . 5 "Now therefore, what do I have here ," declares the Lord , "seeing that My people have been taken away without cause ?" Again the Lord declares , "Those who rule over them howl , and My name is continually blasphemed all day long. 6 "Therefore My people shall know My name ; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking , 'Here I am.' "
7 How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news , Who announces peace And brings good news of happiness , Who announces salvation , And says to Zion , "Your God reigns !" 8 Listen ! Your watchmen lift up their voices , They shout joyfully together ; For they will see with their own eyes When the Lord restores Zion . 9 Break forth , shout joyfully together , You waste places of Jerusalem ; For the Lord has comforted His people , He has redeemed Jerusalem . 10 The Lord has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations , That all the ends of the earth may see The salvation of our God . 11 Depart , depart , go out from there , Touch nothing unclean ; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the Lord . 12 But you will not go out in haste , Nor will you go as fugitives ; For the Lord will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard .
13 Behold , My servant will prosper , He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted . 14 Just as many were astonished at you, My people, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men . 15 Thus He will sprinkle many nations , Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him; For what had not been told them they will see , And what they had not heard they will understand .
31 For behold , the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support , the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water ; 2 The mighty man and the warrior , The judge and the prophet , The diviner and the elder , 3 The captain of fifty and the honorable e man, The counselor and the expert artisan , And the skillful enchanter . 4 And I will make mere lads their princes , And capricious children will rule over them, 5 And the people will be oppressed , Each one by another , and each one by his neighbor ; The youth will storm against the elder And the inferior against the honorable . 6 When a man lays hold of his brother in his father's house , saying, "You have a cloak , you shall be our ruler , And these ruins will be under your charge ," 7 He will protest on that day , saying , "I will not be your healer , For in my house there is neither bread nor cloak ; You should not appoint me ruler of the people ." 8 For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen , Because their speech and their actions are against the Lord , To rebel against His glorious presence .
9 The expression of their faces bears witness against them, And they display their sin like Sodom ; They do not even conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves. 10 Say to the righteous that it will go well with them, For they will eat the fruit of their actions . 11 Woe to the wicked ! It will go badly with him, For what e he deserves e will be done to him. 12 O My people ! Their oppressors are children , And women rule over them. O My people ! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths . 13 The Lord arises to contend , And stands to judge the people . 14 The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of His people , "It is you who have devoured the vineyard ; The plunder of the poor is in your houses . 15 "What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the face of the poor ?" Declares the Lord GOD of hosts .
16 Moreover, the Lord said , "Because e the daughters of Zion are proud And walk with heads held high and seductive eyes , And go along with mincing steps And tinkle the bangles on their feet , 17 Therefore the Lord will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs , And the Lord will make their foreheads bare ." 18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets , headbands , crescent ornaments , 19 dangling earrings , bracelets , veils , 20 headdresses , ankle chains , sashes , perfume e boxes , amulets , 21 finger rings , nose rings , 22 festal robes , outer tunics , cloaks , money purses , 23 hand mirrors , undergarments , turbans and veils . 24 Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be putrefaction ; Instead of a belt , a rope ; Instead of well-set hair , a plucked-out scalp ; Instead of fine clothes , a donning of sackcloth ; And branding instead of beauty . 25 Your men will fall by the sword And your mighty ones in battle . 26 And her gates will lament and mourn , And deserted she will sit on the ground .
