62Isaiah 62

1For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burns.Select Isaiah 62:1

2And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.Select Isaiah 62:2

3You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.Select Isaiah 62:3

4You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. ¶Select Isaiah 62:4

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

6I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,Select Isaiah 62:6

7And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.Select Isaiah 62:7

8The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your corn to be meat for your enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink your wine, for the which you have labored:Select Isaiah 62:8

9But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. ¶Select Isaiah 62:9

10Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.Select Isaiah 62:10

11Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the world, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.Select Isaiah 62:11

12And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and you shall be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.Select Isaiah 62:12