Isaiah 62–64

62For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace,

And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,

Until ^athe righteousness thereof go forth as brightness,

And the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

²And ^bthe Gentiles shall see thy righteousness,

And ^call kings thy glory:

And thou shalt be called by ^da new name,

Which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

³Thou shalt also be ^ea crown of glory in the hand of the Lord,

And a royal ^fdiadem in the hand of thy God.

^4gThou shalt no more be termed ^hForsaken;

Neither shall thy land any more be termed ⁱDesolate:

But thou shalt be called ^||Hephzi-bah,

And thy land ^||Beulah:

For the Lord delighteth in thee,

And thy land shall be married.

⁵For ^kas a young man marrieth a virgin,

So shall ^lthy sons marry thee:

And ^†as ^mthe bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,

So ⁿshall thy God rejoice over thee.

⁶I have set ^owatchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,

Which shall never hold their peace day nor night:

^||qYe that make mention of the Lord,

Keep not silence, ⁷And give him no ^†rest,

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

⁸The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,

^†Surely ^sI will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies;

And ^tthe sons of the stranger ^ttshall not drink thy ^uwine, for the which thou hast laboured:

⁹But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and ^vpraise the Lord;

And they that have brought it together shall drink it ^vin the courts of my holiness.

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates; ^wxprepare ye the way of the people;

^xCast up, cast up the highway; ^ygather out the stones;

^zLift up a standard for the people.

¹¹Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world,

^aSay ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, ^bthy salvation cometh;

^cBehold, his reward is with him,

^cAnd his ^||work before him.

¹²And ^dthey shall call them, ^eThe holy people, ^fThe redeemed of the Lord:

And thou shalt be called, Sought out, ^gA city not forsaken.

63Who is this that cometh from Edom,

^aWith dyed garments from ^bBozrah?

This that is ^†glorious in his apparel,

^cTravelling in the greatness of his strength?

I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

²Wherefore ^dart thou red in thine apparel,

And thy garments like him that ^etreadeth in the winefat?

³I have ^etrodden the winepress alone;

And of the people there was none with me:

For ^fI will tread them in mine anger,

And trample them in ^gmy fury;

And ^dtheir ^hblood shall be sprinkled upon my garments,

And I will stain all my raiment.

⁴For ⁱthe day of vengeance is in mine heart,

And the year of ^kmy redeemed is come.

^5lAnd I looked, and ^mthere was none to help;

And I wondered that there was none to uphold:

ⁿTherefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me;

ⁿAnd ^gmy fury, it upheld me.

⁶And I will tread down the people in mine anger,

And ^omake them drunk in ^gmy fury,

And I will bring down their ^hstrength to the earth.

⁷I will ^pmention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord,

^qAccording to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us,

And ^rthe great goodness toward the house of Israel,

Which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies,

And ^saccording to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

⁸For he said, Surely they are my people,

Children that will not lie:

So he was their Saviour.

^9tIn all their affliction he was afflicted,

And ^uthe angel of his presence saved them:

^vIn his love and in his pity ^whe redeemed them;

And he bare them, and ^xcarried them all the days of old.

¹⁰But ^ythey rebelled, and ^zvexed his holy Spirit:

Therefore ^ahe was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

¹¹Then ^bhe remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying,

Where is ^che that brought them up out of the sea with the ^||shepherd of ^dhis flock?

^eWhere is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

¹²That led them by the right hand of Moses ^fwith his glorious arm,

^gDividing the water before them, ^hto make himself an everlasting name?

¹³ⁱThat led them through the deep,

^kAs an horse ⁱin the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

¹⁴As a beast goeth down into the valley,

The Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest:

So didst thou lead thy people,

^hTo make thyself a glorious name.

^15lLook down from heaven, and behold

^mFrom the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory:

Where is thy zeal and thy strength,

^||nThe sounding of thy bowels and of ^othy mercies toward me? are they ^prestrained?

^16qDoubtless thou art our father,

Though ^rAbraham be ignorant of us,

And Israel acknowledge us not:

Thou, O Lord, art our father, ^||our ^sredeemer;

Thy name is from everlasting.

¹⁷O Lord, why hast thou ^tmade us to err from thy ways,

And ^uhardened our heart from thy fear?

^vReturn for thy servants’ sake,

^wThe tribes of thine inheritance.

^18xThe people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:

^yOur adversaries ^zhave trodden down thy sanctuary.

¹⁹We are thine: thou never barest rule over them;

^†They were not called by thy name.

64Oh that thou wouldest ^arend the heavens, that thou wouldest ^acome down,

That ^bthe mountains might flow down at thy presence,

²As when ^†the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,

To make thy name known to thine adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at thy presence!

³When ^cthou didst terrible things which we looked not for,

^aThou camest down, ^bthe mountains flowed down at thy presence.

⁴For since the beginning of the world ^dmen have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,

Neither hath the eye ^||seen, O God, beside thee,

^eWhat he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

⁵Thou ^fmeetest him that rejoiceth and ^gworketh righteousness,

^hThose that remember thee in ⁱthy ways:

Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned:

^kIn those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

⁶But we are all as ^lan unclean thing,

And ^mall our righteousnesses are ⁿas filthy rags;

And ^owe all ^pdo fade as a leaf;

And our iniquities, like the wind, have ^qtaken us away.

⁷And there is none that ^rcalleth upon thy name,

That stirreth up himself to take hold of thee:

For ^sthou hast hid thy face from us,

And hast ^†consumed us, ^†because of our iniquities.

⁸But now, O Lord, ^tthou art our father;

^uWe are the clay, and ^vthou our potter;

And ^wwe all are the work of thy hand.

^9xBe not wroth very sore, O Lord,

^yNeither remember iniquity for ever:

Behold, see, we beseech thee, ^zwe are all thy people.

^10aThy holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness, ^bJerusalem a desolation.

¹¹Our holy and our ^cbeautiful house,

Where our fathers praised thee,

^dIs burned up with fire:

And all ^eour pleasant things are laid waste.

¹²Wilt thou ^frefrain thyself for these things, O Lord?

^gWilt thou ^fhold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?