1Take off the garment of your sorrow and affliction, O Jerusalem,

and put on for ever the beauty of the glory from God.

2Put on the robe of the righteousness that comes from God;

put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting;

3for God will show your splendour everywhere under heaven.

4For God will give you evermore the name,

‘Righteous Peace, Godly Glory’.

5Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height;

look towards the east,

and see your children gathered from west and east

at the word of the Holy One,

rejoicing that God has remembered them.

6For they went out from you on foot,

led away by their enemies;

but God will bring them back to you,

carried in glory, as on a royal throne.

7For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low

and the valleys filled up, to make level ground,

so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.

8The woods and every fragrant tree

have shaded Israel at God's command.

9For God will lead Israel with joy,

in the light of his glory,

with the mercy and righteousness that come from him.