Chapter 62
1 For 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 .
2 The 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 .
3 You will also be a crown of beauty in the LORD ’s hand , and a royal diadem in your God ’s hand .
4 You 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 .
5 For 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 .
6 I have set watchmen on your walls , Jerusalem . They will never be silent day nor night . You who call on the LORD , take no rest ,
7 and give him no rest until he establishes , and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The 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 laboured ,
9 but 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 ."
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 , 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 !’"
12 They will call them " The Holy People , The LORD ’s Redeemed ". You will be called " Sought Out , A City Not Forsaken ".