Isaiah 62

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

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,

until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,

and her salvation like a burning lamp.

²The nations will see your righteousness,

and all kings your glory.

You will be called by a new name,

which the LORD’s mouth will name.

³You will also be a crown of beauty in the LORD’s hand,

and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

⁴You will not be called Forsaken any more,

nor will your land be called Desolate any more;

but you will be called Hephzibah,

and your land Beulah;

for the LORD delights in you,

and your land will be married.

⁵For as a young man marries a virgin,

so your sons will marry you.

As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

⁶I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.

They will never be silent day nor night.

You who call on the LORD, take no rest,

⁷and give him no rest until he establishes,

and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

⁸The LORD 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,

⁹but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise the LORD.

Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

¹⁰Go 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.

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!’ ”

¹²They will call them “The Holy People,

The LORD’s Redeemed”.

You will be called “Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken”.