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Isaiah 62 - The Vindication and Salvation of Zion

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
 
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
 
until her vindication shines out like the dawn,
 
and her salvation like a burning torch.
 
The nations shall see your vindication,
 
and all the kings your glory;
 
and you shall be called by a new name
 
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
 
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
 
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
 
You shall no more be termed Forsaken,[a]
 
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate;[b]
 
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,[c]
 
and your land Married;[d]
 
for the Lord delights in you,
 
and your land shall be married.
 
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
 
so shall your builder[e] marry you,
 
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
 
so shall your God rejoice over you.
 
6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
 
I have posted sentinels;
 
all day and all night
 
they shall never be silent.
 
You who remind the Lord,
 
take no rest,
 
7 and give him no rest
 
until he establishes Jerusalem
 
and makes it renowned throughout the earth.
 
8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand
 
and by his mighty arm:
 
I will not again give your grain
 
to be food for your enemies,
 
and foreigners shall not drink the wine
 
for which you have labored;
 
9 but those who garner it shall eat it
 
and praise the Lord,
 
and those who gather it shall drink it
 
in my holy courts.

10 Go through, go through the gates,
 
prepare the way for the people;
 
build up, build up the highway,
 
clear it of stones,
 
lift up an ensign over the peoples.
 
11 The Lord has proclaimed
 
to the end of the earth:
 
Say to daughter Zion,
 
“See, your salvation comes;
 
his reward is with him,
 
and his recompense before him.”
 
12 They shall be called, “The Holy People,
 
The Redeemed of the Lord”;
 
and you shall be called, “Sought Out,
 
A City Not Forsaken.”

Footnotes
 

a. Isaiah 62:4 Heb Azubah

b. Isaiah 62:4 Heb Shemamah

c. Isaiah 62:4 Heb Hephzibah

d. Isaiah 62:4 Heb Beulah

e. Isaiah 62:5 Cn: Heb your sons

New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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