Isaiah 62

Chapter 62

¹For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,

until her vindication goes forth as brightness,

and her salvation as a burning torch.

²The nations shall see your vindication,

and all the kings your glory;

and you shall be called by a new name

which the mouth of the Lord will give.

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

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

⁴You shall no more be termed Forsaken,

and your land shall no more be termed Desolate;

but you shall be called My delight is in her,

and your land Married;

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,

so shall your God rejoice over you.

⁶Upon 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,

⁷and give him no rest

until he establishes Jerusalem

and makes it a praise in the earth.

⁸The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm:

“I will not again give your grain

to be food for your enemies,

and foreigners shall not drink your wine

for which you have labored;

⁹but those who garner it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who gather it shall drink it

in the courts of my sanctuary.”

¹⁰Go through,

go through the gates,

prepare the way for the people;

build up, build up the highway, clear it of stones,

lift up an ensign over the peoples.

¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth:

Say to the daughter of Zion,

“Behold, your salvation comes;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

¹²And they shall be called The holy people,

The redeemed of the Lord;

and you shall be called Sought out,

a city not forsaken.