Zion's Coming Salvation

62  oFor Zion's sake I will not keep silent,

and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,

puntil her righteousness goes forth as brightness,

and her salvation as a burning torch.

2  qThe nations shall see your righteousness,

and all the kings your glory,

rand you shall be called by a new name

that the mouth of the Lord will give.

3  You shall be sa crown of beauty in the hand of theLord,

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4  tYou shall no more be termed uForsaken,1

and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,2

rbut you shall be called vMy Delight Is in Her,3

and your land Married;4

for the Lord delights in you,

and your land shall be married.

5  For as a young man marries a young woman,

so wshall your sons marry you,

and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

so xshall your God rejoice over you.

6  On your walls, O Jerusalem,

I have set ywatchmen;

all the day and all the night

they shall never be silent.

You who put the Lord in remembrance,

take no rest,

7  and give him no rest

until he establishes Jerusalem

and makes it za praise in the earth.

8  The Lord has sworn aby his right hand

and by his mighty arm:

“I will not again give byour grain

to be food for your enemies,

cand foreigners shall not drink your wine

for which you have labored;

9  but dthose who garner it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and dthose who gather it shall drink it

in the courts of my sanctuary.”5

10  Go through, go through the gates;

eprepare the way for the people;

fbuild up, build up the highway;

clear it of stones;

glift up a signal over the peoples.

11  Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

hSay to the daughter of Zion,

i“Behold, your salvation comes;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

12  jAnd they shall be called The Holy People,

The Redeemed of the Lord;

kand you shall be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

Footnotes

[1] 62:4 Hebrew Azubah 
[2] 62:4 Hebrew Shemamah 
[3] 62:4 Hebrew Hephzibah 
[4] 62:4 Hebrew Beulah 
[5] 62:9 Or in my holy courts