3. For the LORD has comforted ZION.He has comforted all her waste places,and has made her wilderness like Eden,and her desert like the garden of The LORD.Joy and gladness will be found therein,thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4. "Listen to me, my people;and hear me, my nation:for a law will go out from me,and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

5. My righteousness is near.My salvation has gone out,and my arms will judge the peoples.The islands will wait for me,and they will trust my arm.

6. Lift up your eyes to the heavens,and look on the earth beneath;for the heavens will vanish away like smoke,and the earth will wear out like a garment;and its inhabitants will die in the same way:but my salvation will be forever,and my righteousness will not be abolished.

7. "Listen to me, you who know righteousness,the people in whose heart is my law:Don't fear the reproach of men,and don't be dismayed at their insults.

8. For the moth will eat them up like a garment,and the worm will eat them like wool;but my righteousness will be forever,and my salvation to all generations."

9. Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of The LORD!Awake, as in the days of old,the generations of ancient times.Isn't it you who cut Rahab in pieces,who pierced the monster?

10. Isn't it you who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep;who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

11. Those ransomed by the LORD will return,and come with singing to ZION;and everlasting joy shall be on their heads.They will obtain gladness and joy.Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

12. "I, even I, am he who comforts you.Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die,and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

13. Have you forgotten the LORD your Maker,who stretched out the heavens,and laid the foundations of the earth?Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor,when he prepares to destroy?Where is the fury of the oppressor?

14. The captive exile will speedily be freed;and he will not die and go down into the pit,and his bread will not fail.

15. For I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea,so that its waves roar:The LORD of Armies is his name.

16. I have put my words in your mouth,and have covered you in the shadow of my hand,that I may plant the heavens,and lay the foundations of the earth,and tell ZION, 'You are my people.'"

1. Awake, awake! Put on your strength, ZION.Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city:for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

2. Shake yourself from the dust!Arise, sit up, Jerusalem!Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of ZION!

3. For the LORD says, "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 live there:and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

5. "Now therefore, what do I do here," says The LORD,"seeing that my people are taken away for nothing?Those who rule over them mock," says The LORD,"and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

6. Therefore my people shall know my name.Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks.Behold, it is I."

7. How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news,who publishes peace,who brings good news,who proclaims salvation,who says to ZION, "Your God reigns!"

8. Your watchmen lift up their voice,together they sing;for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD returns to ZION.

"A Redeemer will come to ZION,and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob," says The LORD.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you;and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet.They will call you The LORD's City,The ZION of the Holy One of Israel.

17. But in Mount ZION, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

18. The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

19. Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

20. The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

21. Saviors will go up on Mount ZION to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be The LORD's.