23AND I WILL PUT IT IN [THE] HAND OF [THOSE WHO] TORMENT YOU WHO THEY SAID TO SELF YOUR LIE DOWN SO LET US PASS OVER [YOU] AND YOU MADE LIKE THE GROUND BACK YOUR AND LIKE THE STREET FOR <THE> [THOSE WHO] PASS OVER 23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
1AWAKE AWAKE PUT ON STRENGTH YOUR O ZION PUT ON [THE] GARMENTS OF BEAUTY YOUR O JERUSALEM [THE] CITY OF <THE> HOLINESS FOR NOT HE WILL REPEAT HE WILL COME IN YOU AGAIN AN UNCIRCUMCISED [MAN] AND AN UNCLEAN [PERSON] Deliverance for Jerusalem 1Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you.
2SHAKE YOURSELF FREE FROM [THE] DUST ARISE SIT O JERUSALEM LOOSEN FOR YOURSELF [THE] FETTERS OF NECK YOUR O CAPTIVE [ONE] [THE] DAUGHTER OF ZION 2Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.
3FOR THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH FOR NOTHING YOU WERE SOLD AND NOT WITH MONEY YOU WILL BE REDEEMED 3For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
4FOR THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH EGYPT IT WENT DOWN PEOPLE MY AT THE FORMER [TIME] TO SOJOURN THERE AND ASSYRIA FOR NOTHING IT OPPRESSED IT 4For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
5AND THEREFORE WHAT? [BELONGS] TO ME HERE [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH THAT IT WAS TAKEN PEOPLE MY FOR NOTHING RULERS ITS THEY WAIL [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH AND CONTINUALLY ALL THE DAY NAME MY [IS] REVILED 5And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt,*NoteCloseDSS and Vulgate; MT wail declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.*NoteCloseLXX —on account of you My name is blasphemed continually among the Gentiles; cited in Romans 2:24
6<TO> THEREFORE IT WILL KNOW PEOPLE MY NAME MY <TO> THEREFORE IN THE DAY <THE> THAT THAT I [AM] HE WHO IS SPEAKING HERE [AM] I 6Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”
7HOW! THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL ON THE MOUNTAINS [THE] FEET OF [ONE WHO] BEARS NEWS [ONE WHO] PROCLAIMS PEACE [ONE WHO] BEARS NEWS GOOD [ONE WHO] PROCLAIMS SALVATION [ONE WHO] SAYS TO ZION HE REIGNS GOD YOUR 7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,*NoteCloseCited in Romans 10:15 who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
8[THE] VOICE OF WATCHMEN YOUR THEY WILL LIFT UP A VOICE TOGETHER THEY WILL SHOUT FOR JOY FOR EYE IN EYE THEY WILL SEE WHEN RETURNS YAHWEH ZION 8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
9BREAK FORTH SHOUT FOR JOY TOGETHER O WASTE PLACES OF JERUSALEM FOR HE HAS COMFORTED YAHWEH PEOPLE HIS HE HAS REDEEMED JERUSALEM 9Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10HE HAS BARED YAHWEH <OBJ.> [THE] ARM OF HOLINESS HIS TO [THE] EYES OF ALL THE NATIONS AND THEY WILL SEE ALL [THE] ENDS OF [THE] EARTH <OBJ.> [THE] SALVATION OF GOD OUR 10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
11DEPART DEPART GO OUT FROM THERE AN UNCLEAN [THING] MAY NOT YOU TOUCH GO OUT FROM [THE] MIDST OF IT PURIFY YOURSELVES O BEARERS OF [THE] VESSELS OF YAHWEH 11Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing;*NoteCloseCited in 2 Corinthians 6:17 come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
12FOR NOT IN HASTE YOU WILL GO OUT AND IN FLIGHT NOT YOU WILL GO! FOR [WILL BE] GOING <TO> BEFORE YOU YAHWEH AND [WILL BE] REARGUARD YOUR [THE] GOD OF ISRAEL 12For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
13THERE! HE WILL PROSPER SERVANT MY HE WILL BE HIGH AND HE WILL BE LIFTED UP AND HE WILL BE EXALTED EXCEEDINGLY The Servant Exalted (Philippians 2:5–11) 13Behold, My Servant will prosper;*NoteCloseOr will act wisely He will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
14JUST AS THEY WERE APPALLED ON YOU MANY [PEOPLE] SO [WAS] A DISFIGUREMENT FROM A PERSON APPEARANCE HIS AND FORM HIS FROM [THE] CHILDREN OF HUMANKIND 14Just as many were appalled at Him*NoteCloseSyriac; Hebrew at You — His appearance was disfigured beyond that of any man, and His form was marred beyond human likeness
15SO HE WILL STARTLE NATIONS MANY ON HIM THEY WILL SHUT KINGS MOUTH THEIR FOR [THAT] WHICH NOT IT HAD BEEN RECOUNTED TO THEM THEY WILL SEE AND [THAT] WHICH NOT THEY HAD HEARD THEY WILL UNDERSTAND 15so He will sprinkle*NoteCloseOr startle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told and they will understand what they have not heard.*NoteCloseLXX For those who were not told will see, and those who have not heard will understand. Cited in Romans 15:21