Isaiah 62–64

Assurance of Zion’s Salvation

62For Zion’s sake I will not ¹hold My peace,

And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,

Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,

And her salvation as a lamp that burns.

^2aThe Gentiles shall see your righteousness,

And all ^bkings your glory.

^cYou shall be called by a new name,

Which the mouth of the Lord will name.

³You shall also be ^da crown of glory

In the hand of the Lord,

And a royal diadem

In the hand of your God.

^4eYou shall no longer be termed ^fForsaken, ²

Nor shall your land any more be termed ^gDesolate; ³

But you shall be called ⁴Hephzibah, and your land ⁵Beulah;

For the Lord delights in you,

And your land shall be married.

⁵For as a young man marries a virgin,

So shall your sons marry you;

And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

^hSo shall your God rejoice over you.

⁶ⁱI have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

They shall ⁶never hold their peace day or night.

You who ⁷make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,

⁷And give Him no rest till He establishes

And till He makes Jerusalem ^ja praise in the earth.

⁸The Lord has sworn by His right hand

And by the arm of His strength:

“Surely I will no longer ^kgive your grain

As food for your enemies;

And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,

For which you have labored.

⁹But those who have gathered it shall eat it,

And praise the Lord;

Those who have brought it together shall drink it ^lin My holy courts.”

¹⁰Go through,

Go through the gates!

^mPrepare the way for the people;

Build up,

Build up the highway!

Take out the stones,

ⁿLift up a banner for the peoples!

¹¹Indeed the Lord has proclaimed

To the end of the world:

^o“Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Surely your salvation is coming;

Behold, His ^preward is with Him,

And His ⁸work before Him.’ ”

¹²And they shall call them The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord;

And you shall be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

The Lord In Judgment and Salvation

63Who is this who comes from Edom,

With dyed garments from Bozrah,

This One who is ¹glorious in His apparel,

Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—

“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

²Why ^ais Your apparel red,

And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

³“I have ^btrodden the winepress alone,

And from the peoples no one was with Me.

For I have trodden them in My anger,

And trampled them in My fury;

Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,

And I have stained all My robes.

⁴For the ^cday of vengeance is in My heart,

And the year of My redeemed has come.

^5dI looked, but ^ethere was no one to help,

And I wondered

That there was no one to uphold;

Therefore My own ^farm brought salvation for Me;

And My own fury, it sustained Me.

⁶I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,

Made them drunk in My fury,

And brought down their strength to the earth.”

God’s Mercy Remembered

⁷I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord

And the praises of the Lord,

According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,

And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,

Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,

According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

⁸For He said, “Surely they are My people,

Children who will not lie.”

So He became their Savior.

^9gIn all their affliction He was ²afflicted,

^hAnd the Angel of His Presence saved them;

ⁱIn His love and in His pity He redeemed them;

And ^jHe bore them and carried them

All the days of old.

¹⁰But they ^krebelled and ^lgrieved His Holy Spirit;

^mSo He turned Himself against them as an enemy,

And He fought against them.

¹¹Then he ⁿremembered the days of old,

Moses and his people, saying:

“Where is He who ^obrought them up out of the sea

With the ³shepherd of His flock?

^pWhere is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,

¹²Who led them by the right hand of Moses,

^qWith His glorious arm,

^rDividing the water before them

To make for Himself an everlasting name,

^13sWho led them through the deep,

As a horse in the wilderness,

That they might not stumble?”

¹⁴As a beast goes down into the valley,

And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest,

So You lead Your people,

^tTo make Yourself a glorious name.

A Prayer of Penitence

^15uLook down from heaven,

And see ^vfrom Your habitation, holy and glorious.

Where are Your zeal and Your strength,

The yearning ^wof Your heart and Your mercies toward me?

Are they restrained?

^16xDoubtless You are our Father,

Though Abraham ^ywas ignorant of us,

And Israel does not acknowledge us.

You, O Lord, are our Father;

Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

¹⁷O Lord, why have You ^zmade us stray from Your ways,

And hardened our heart from Your fear?

Return for Your servants’ sake,

The tribes of Your inheritance.

^18aYour holy people have possessed it but a little while;

^bOur adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

¹⁹We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,

Those who were never called by Your name.

64Oh, that You would ¹rend the heavens!

That You would come down!

That the mountains might shake at Your ^apresence—

²As fire burns brushwood,

As fire causes water to boil—

To make Your name known to Your adversaries,

That the nations may tremble at Your presence!

³When ^bYou did awesome things for which we did not look,

You came down,

The mountains shook at Your presence.

⁴For since the beginning of the world

^cMen have not heard nor perceived by the ear,

Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,

Who acts for the one who waits for Him.

⁵You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,

Who remembers You in Your ways.

You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—

^dIn these ways we continue;

And we need to be saved.

⁶But we are all like an unclean thing,

And all ^eour righteousnesses are like ²filthy rags;

We all ^ffade as a leaf,

And our iniquities, like the wind,

Have taken us away.

⁷And there is no one who calls on Your name,

Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;

For You have hidden Your face from us,

And have ³consumed us because of our iniquities.

⁸But now, O Lord,

You are our Father;

We are the clay, and You our ^gpotter;

And all we are the work of Your hand.

⁹Do not be furious, O Lord,

Nor remember iniquity forever;

Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!

¹⁰Your holy cities are a wilderness,

Zion is a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

¹¹Our holy and beautiful ⁴temple,

Where our fathers praised You,

Is burned up with fire;

And all ^hour pleasant things ⁵are laid waste.

¹²ⁱWill You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?

^jWill You ⁶hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?