Isaiah 62–63

ZION’S RESTORATION

62I will not keep silent because of Zion,

and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem,^q

until her righteousness shines like a bright light^r

and her salvation, like a flaming torch.

²Nations will see your righteousness^s

and all kings, your glory.

You will be given a new name

that the Lord’s mouth will announce.^t

³You will be a glorious crown in the Lord’s hand,

and a royal diadem in the palm of your God’s hand.^u

⁴You will no longer be called Deserted,^v

and your land will not be called Desolate;

instead, you will be called My Delight Is in Her,^A

and your land Married;^Bw

for the Lord delights in you,

and your land will be married.

⁵For as a young man marries a young woman,

so your sons will marry you;

and as a groom rejoices over his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.^x

⁶Jerusalem,

I have appointed watchmen on your walls;^a

they will never be silent, day or night.

There is no rest for you,

who remind the Lord.

⁷Do not give him rest

until he establishes and makes Jerusalem

the praise of the earth.^b

⁸The Lord has sworn with his right hand

and his strong arm:

I will no longer give your grain

to your enemies for food,^c

and foreigners will not drink the new wine

for which you have labored.

⁹For those who gather grain will eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine

in my holy courts.

¹⁰Go out, go out through the city gates;

prepare a way for the people!

Build it up, build up the highway;^d

clear away the stones!

Raise a banner for the peoples.^e

¹¹Look, the Lord has proclaimed

to the ends of the earth,

“Say to Daughter Zion:^f

Look, your salvation is coming,

his wages are with him,^g

and his reward accompanies him.”

¹²And they will be called^C the Holy People,^h

the Lord’s Redeemed;

and you will be called Cared For,

A City Not Deserted.

THE LORD’S DAY OF VENGEANCE

63Who is this coming from Edomⁱ

in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—

this one who is splendid in his apparel,

striding in his formidable^D might?

It is I, proclaiming vindication,^E

powerful to save.

²Why are your clothes red,

and your garments like one who treads a winepress?^j

³I trampled the winepress alone,

and no one from the nations was with me.

I trampled them in my anger

and ground them underfoot in my fury;

their blood spattered my garments,

and all my clothes were stained.

⁴For I planned the day of vengeance,^k

and the year of my redemption^A came.

⁵I looked, but there was no one to help,^l

and I was amazed that no one assisted;

so my arm accomplished victory for me,

and my wrath assisted me.

⁶I crushed nations in my anger;

I made them drunk with my wrath^m

and poured out their blood on the ground.ⁿ

REMEMBRANCE OF GRACE

⁷I will make known the Lord’s faithful love

and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,

because of all the Lord has done for us—

even the many good things

he has done for the house of Israel,

which he did for them based on his compassion

and the abundance of his faithful love.

⁸He said, “They are indeed my people,

children who will not be disloyal,”

and he became their Savior.

⁹In all their suffering, he suffered,^Bo

and the angel of his presence saved them.

He redeemed them

because of his love and compassion;^p

he lifted them up and carried them

all the days of the past.^q

¹⁰But they rebelled

and grieved his Holy Spirit.^r

So he became their enemy

and fought against them.

¹¹Then he^C remembered the days of the past,

the days of Moses and his people.

Where is he who brought them out of the sea

with the shepherds^D of his flock?

Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among the flock?

¹²He made his glorious strength

available at the right hand of Moses,

divided the water before them^a

to make an eternal name for himself,

¹³and led them through the depths

like a horse in the wilderness,

so that they did not stumble.

¹⁴Like cattle that go down into the valley,

the Spirit of the Lord gave them^E rest.

You led your people this way

to make a glorious name for yourself.

ISRAEL’S PRAYER

¹⁵Look down from heaven and see^b

from your lofty home—holy and beautiful.

Where is your zeal and your might?

Your yearning^A and your compassion

are withheld from me.

¹⁶Yet you are our Father,

even though Abraham does not know us

and Israel doesn’t recognize us.

You, Lord, are our Father;

your name is Our Redeemer^c

from Ancient Times.

¹⁷Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways?

You harden our hearts so we do not fear^B you.^d

Return, because of your servants,

the tribes of your heritage.

¹⁸Your holy people had a possession^C

for a little while,

but our enemies have trampled down

your sanctuary.^e

¹⁹We have become like those you never ruled,

like those who did not bear your name.^f