Isaiah 62

¹ For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes out as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

² The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

³ You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh’s hand, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

⁴ You will no more be called Forsaken; neither will your land any more be called Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never hold their peace day nor night. You who remind Yahweh, take no rest,

⁷ and give him no rest, until he establishes Jerusalem, and makes it a praise in the earth.

⁸ Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored;

⁹ but those who have gathered it will eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

¹⁰ Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

¹¹ Behold, Yahweh 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.’”

¹² They shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of Yahweh; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.