2. Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.
3. For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
4. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.
5. “And now what do I have here?” declares the Lord. “For my people have been taken away for nothing, and those who rule them mock, ” declares the Lord. “And all day long my name is constantly blasphemed.
6. Therefore my people will know my name; therefore in that day they will know that it is I who foretold it. Yes, it is I.”