Isaiah 61:2–62:12

2  iTo proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

And kthe day of vengeance of our God;

lTo comfort all that mourn;

3  To appoint unto lthem that mourn in Zion,

mTo give unto them nbeauty for ashes,

oThe oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they might be called ptrees of righteousness,

qThe planting of the Lord, qrthat he might be glorified.

4  And sthey shall build the old wastes,

They shall raise up the former desolations,

And they shall repair the waste cities,

tThe desolations of many generations.

5  And ustrangers shall stand and feed your flocks,

And vthe sons of uthe alien shall be wyour plowmen and your vinedressers.

6  But xye shall be named the Priests of the Lord:

Men shall call you the Ministers of our God:

yYe shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,

And zin their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

7  For your shame aye shall have double;

And for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion:

bTherefore in their land athey shall possess the double:

Everlasting joy shall be unto them.

8  For cI the Lord love judgment,

dI hate robbery for burnt offering;

And I will direct their ework in truth,

And fI will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9  And gtheir seed shall be known among the Gentiles,

And htheir offspring among the people:

All that see them shall acknowledge them,

iThat they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

10  jI will greatly rejoice in the Lord,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For khe hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He hath covered me with lthe robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom †decketh himself with mornaments,

And nas a bride oadorneth herself with her jewels.

11  For as the earth bringeth forth her bud,

And as the garden causeth pthe things that are sown in it to spring forth;

So the Lord God will cause qrighteousness and rpraise to spring forth

Before all the nations.

62 For 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.

2  And 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.

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

And a royal fdiadem in the hand of thy God.

4  gThou 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.

5  For 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.

6  I 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, 7 And give him no †rest,

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

8  The 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:

9  But 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.

10  Go 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.

11  Behold, 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.

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

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