49 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
49 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
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## Hope for Captive Zion
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###### 1
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Awake, awake, Clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; Clothe yourself in your glorious garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; For the uncircumcised and the unclean Will no longer come into you.
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###### 2
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Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
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###### 3
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For thus says Yahweh, "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money."
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For thus says Lord Yahweh, "My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
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###### 5
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So now, what do I have here," declares Yahweh, "since My people have been taken away for nothing?" Yahweh declares, "Those who rule over them howl, and My name is continually blasphemed all day long.
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Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, 'Here I am.'"
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How lovely on the mountains Are the feet of him who proclaims good news, Who announces peace And proclaims good news of good things, Who announces salvation, _And_ says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
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###### 8
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The voice of Your watchmen! They lift up _their_ voices; They shout joyfully together; For they will see with their own eyes When Yahweh returns to Zion.
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Break forth, shout joyfully together, You waste places of Jerusalem; For Yahweh has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
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Yahweh 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.
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Depart, depart, go out from there, Touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of Yahweh.
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###### 12
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But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as those who flee; For Yahweh will go before you, And the God of Israel _will be_ your rear guard.
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## The Exalted Servant
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###### 13
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Behold, My Servant will prosper; He will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted.
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###### 14
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Just as many were appalled at you, _My people_, So His appearance was marred more than any man And His form more than the sons of men.
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###### 15
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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.
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