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Isaiah 62:6–7

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62:6I9 post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

they should keep praying all day and all night.10

You who pray to11 the Lord, don’t be silent!

62:7Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem,12

until he makes Jerusalem the pride13 of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 9 The speaker here is probably the prophet.
  2. 10 Heb “all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.” The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord’s intervention and restoration of the city.
  3. 11 Or “invoke”; “call on”; , “remind.”
  4. 12 “Jerusalem” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; note the following line.
  5. 13 Heb “[the object of] praise.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

On your walls, O Jerusalem,

I have set watchmen;

all the day and all the night

they shall never be silent.

You who put the Lord in remembrance,

take no rest,

and give him no rest

until he establishes Jerusalem

and makes it a praise in the earth.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;

they will never be silent day or night.

You who call on the Lord,

give yourselves no rest,

and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem

and makes her the praise of the earth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Jerusalem,

I have appointed watchmen on your walls;

they will never be silent, day or night.

There is no rest for you,

who remind the Lord.

Do not give him rest

until he establishes and makes Jerusalem

the praise of the earth.

NLTNew Living Translation

O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;

they will pray day and night, continually.

Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.

Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,

until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem;

all day and all night they shall never be silent.

You who profess Yahweh have no rest.

And you must not give him rest until he establishes,

and until he makes Jerusalem an object of praise in the earth.

KJV 1900King James Version

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,

Which shall never hold their peace day nor night:

Ye that make mention of the Lord,

Keep not silence, And give him no rest,

Till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.