Isaiah 62 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Zion’s Coming Salvation

Isa 62:1For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,
until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.

Isa 62:2

Isa 62:2The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the LORD will give.

Isa 62:3

Isa 62:3You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Isa 62:4

Isa 62:4You shall no more be termed Forsaken,[fn]
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[fn]
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,[fn]
and your land Married;[fn]
for the LORD delights in you,
and your land shall be married.

Isa 62:5

Isa 62:5For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.

Isa 62:6

Isa 62:6On 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,

Isa 62:7

Isa 62:7and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it a praise in the earth.

Isa 62:8

Isa 62:8The 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;

Isa 62:9

Isa 62:9but 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.”[fn]

Isa 62:10

Isa 62:10Go through, go through the gates;
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
lift up a signal over the peoples.

Isa 62:11

Isa 62:11Behold, 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.”

Isa 62:12

Isa 62:12And they shall be called The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the LORD;
and you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.

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Hebrew Azubah

Hebrew Shemamah

Hebrew Hephzibah

Hebrew Beulah

Or in my holy courts

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