Isaiah 62

Isaiah 62, verse 1. ¹For Zion's sake I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until My righteousness goes forth as light, and My salvation burns like a lamp. Isaiah 62, verse 2. ²The Gentiles will see your righteousness, and kings your glory; and one will call you by your new name, which the Lord shall name. Isaiah 62, verse 3. ³You shall also be a crown of beauty in the Lord's hand, and the diadem of a kingdom in the hand of your God. Isaiah 62, verse 4. ⁴You shall no longer be called Forsaken, and your land shall not be called Desert; for you shall be called My Will, and in your land, the Inhabited Earth. Isaiah 62, verse 5. ⁵As a young man lives in wedlock with a virgin, so shall your sons dwell with you, and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so the Lord shall rejoice over you. Isaiah 62, verse 6. ⁶I will place guards on your walls all day and all night, O Jerusalem, who shall never keep silent in the remembrance of the Lord. Isaiah 62, verse 7. ⁷For there shall be no one like you, O Jerusalem, when He amends and makes you the pride of the earth. Isaiah 62, verse 8. ⁸The Lord swore by His right hand and by the strength of His arm, “I will not give your grain and your food to your enemies, and the sons of foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you labored; Isaiah 62, verse 9. ⁹but rather, those who gather the food shall eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather the grapes shall drink their wine in My holy courts. Isaiah 62, verse 10. ¹⁰Go through My gates, make a way for My people, throw the stones off the road, and lift up a standard for the Gentiles.” Isaiah 62, verse 11. ¹¹For behold, the Lord caused this to be heard to the ends of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your Savior is come, and has His reward, and His work before His face.’” Isaiah 62, verse 12. ¹²One shall call them a holy people, the redeemed of the Lord, and you shall be called a City Sought for and Not Forsaken.