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Isaiah  Chapter 62    Back    Next

{62:1} For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem
's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp
that burns.

{62:2} The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.

{62:3} You shall also be a crown
of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem
in the hand of your God.

{62:4} You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah
, and your land Beulah
; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.

{62:5} For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

{62:6} I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

{62:7} and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth
.

{62:8} Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain
to be food for your enemies; and foreigners
shall not drink
your new wine, for which you have labored:

{62:9} but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary."

{62:10} Go through, go through the gates
! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway
! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner
for the peoples.

{62:11} Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'"

{62:12} They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

Isaiah  Chapter 62    Back    Next