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And ye shall be redeemed without money.

⁴For thus saith the Lord God:

My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there;

And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

⁵Now therefore, what do I here, saith the Lord,

Seeing that My people is taken away for nought?

They that rule over them do howl, saith the Lord,

And My name continually all the day is blasphemed.

⁶Therefore My people shall know My name;

Therefore they shall know in that day

That I, even He that spoke, behold, here I am.

 

⁷How beautiful upon the mountains

Are the feet of the messenger of good tidings,

That announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings,

That announceth salvation;

That saith unto Zion:

'Thy God reigneth! '

⁸Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice,

Together do they sing;

For they shall see, eye to eye,

The Lord returning to Zion.

⁹Break forth into joy, sing together,

Ye waste places of Jerusalem;

For the Lord hath comforted His people,

He hath redeemed Jerusalem.

¹⁰The Lord hath made bare His holy arm

In the eyes of all the nations;

And all the ends of the earth shall see

The salvation of our God.

¹¹Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence,

Touch no unclean thing;

Go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean,

Ye that bear the vessels of the Lord.

¹²For ye shall not go out in haste,

Neither shall ye go by flight;

For the Lord will go before you,

And the God of Israel will be your rearward.

 

¹³Behold, My servant shall prosper,

He shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

¹⁴According as many were appalled at thee—

So marred was his visage unlike that of a man,

And his form unlike that of the sons of men—

¹⁵So shall he startle many nations,

Kings shall shut their mouths because of him;

For that which had not been told them shall they see,

And that which they had not heard shall they perceive.

53'Who would have believed our report?

And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

²For he shot up right forth as a sapling,

And as a root out of a dry ground;

He had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him,

Nor beauty that we should delight in him.

³He was despised, and forsaken of men,

A man of pains, and acquainted with disease,

And as one from whom men hide their face:

He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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