Isaiah 62:1–64:1

Zion’s Coming Salvation

62^oFor Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,

^puntil her righteousness goes forth as brightness,

and her salvation as a burning torch.

^2qThe nations shall see your righteousness,

and all the kings your glory,

^rand you shall be called by a new name

that the mouth of the Lord will give.

³You shall be ^sa crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

^4tYou shall no more be termed ^uForsaken,¹

and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,²

^rbut you shall be called ^vMy Delight Is in Her,³

and your land Married;⁴

for the Lord delights in you,

and your land shall be married.

⁵For as a young man marries a young woman,

so ^wshall your sons marry you,

and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

so ^xshall your God rejoice over you.

⁶On your walls, O Jerusalem,

I have set ^ywatchmen;

all the day and all the night

they shall never be silent.

You who put the Lord in remembrance,

take no rest,

⁷and give him no rest

until he establishes Jerusalem

and makes it ^za praise in the earth.

⁸The Lord has sworn ^aby his right hand

and by his mighty arm:

“I will not again give ^byour grain

to be food for your enemies,

^cand foreigners shall not drink your wine

for which you have labored;

⁹but ^dthose who garner it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and ^dthose who gather it shall drink it

in the courts of my sanctuary.”⁵

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates;

^eprepare the way for the people;

^fbuild up, build up the highway;

clear it of stones;

^glift up a signal over the peoples.

¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

^hSay to the daughter of Zion,

ⁱ“Behold, your salvation comes;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

^12jAnd they shall be called The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord;

^kand you shall be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

The Lord’s Day of Vengeance

63Who is this who comes from ^lEdom,

in crimsoned garments from ^lBozrah,

he who is splendid in his apparel,

^mmarching in the greatness of his strength?

“It is I, speaking in righteousness,

mighty to save.”

²Why is your ⁿapparel red,

and your garments like his ^owho treads in the winepress?

^3p“I have trodden the winepress alone,

^qand from the peoples no one was with me;

I trod them in my anger

and trampled them in my wrath;

their lifeblood¹ spattered on my garments,

and stained all my apparel.

^4rFor the day of vengeance was in my heart,

and my year of redemption² had come.

⁵I looked, but ^sthere was no one to help;

I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;

so my own arm brought me salvation,

and my wrath upheld me.

⁶I trampled down the peoples in my anger;

^tI made them drunk in my wrath,

and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

The Lord’s Mercy Remembered

⁷I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,

the praises of the Lord,

according to all that the Lord has granted us,

^uand the great goodness to the house of Israel

that he has granted them according to his compassion,

according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

⁸For he said, “Surely they are my people,

children who will not deal falsely.”

And he became their Savior.

^9vIn all their affliction he was afflicted,³

and the angel of his presence saved them;

^win his love and in his pity he redeemed them;

^xhe lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

^10yBut they rebelled

^zand grieved his Holy Spirit;

therefore he turned to be their enemy,

and himself fought against them.

¹¹Then he remembered ^athe days of old,

of Moses and his people.⁴

^bWhere is he who brought them up out of the sea

with the shepherds of his flock?

Where is he who put in the midst of them

his Holy Spirit,

¹²who caused his glorious arm

to go at the right hand of Moses,

^cwho divided the waters before them

^dto make for himself an everlasting name,

¹³who led them through the depths?

Like a horse in the desert,

they did not stumble.

¹⁴Like livestock that go down into the valley,

^ethe Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.

So you led your people,

^dto make for yourself a glorious name.

Prayer for Mercy

^15fLook down from heaven and see,

^gfrom your holy and beautiful⁵ habitation.

Where are ^hyour zeal and your might?

The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion

are held back from me.

¹⁶For ⁱyou are our Father,

though Abraham does not know us,

and Israel does not acknowledge us;

you, O Lord, are our Father,

^jour Redeemer from of old is your name.

¹⁷O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways

and ^kharden our heart, so that we fear you not?

^lReturn for the sake of your servants,

the tribes of your heritage.

^18mYour holy people held possession for a little while;⁶

ⁿour adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

^19oWe have become like those over whom you have never ruled,

like those who are not called by your name.

64^pOh that you would rend the heavens and come down,

^qthat the mountains might quake at your presence—