Isaiah 62
1 For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be still, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn and her salvation burns like a torch.
2 The nations will see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD will designate.
3 You will be a crown of splendor in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
4 You will no longer be called Abandoned, and your land will no longer be called Desolate. Instead, you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah—for the LORD delights in you, and your land will have a husband.
5 As a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. And as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never be silent. You who remind the LORD, do not be silent!
7 And give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes her a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food to your enemies, and the sons of foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored.
9 Those who harvest it will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather the grapes will drink them in the courts of my sanctuary.”
10 Pass through, pass through the gates; prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway; remove the stones; raise a banner for the peoples.
11 The LORD has made it heard to the ends of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion: ‘Look, your salvation is coming! Look, his reward is with him, and his recompense goes before him.’”
12 They will be called a holy people, the redeemed of the LORD. You will be called Sought After, a city not abandoned.
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