Isaiah 62

1For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes out like brightness and her salvation burns like a torch.

2Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; and you will be called by a new name that the mouth of Yahweh will designate.

3You will be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal turban in the palm of your God.

4No longer will you be called Forsaken, and your land will no longer be called Desolate; but you will be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

6On your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night, continually, they will never be silent. You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves,

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

8Yahweh has sworn by his right hand and by his strong arm: I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.

9But those who gather it will eat it and praise Yahweh, and those who collect it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.

10Pass through, pass through the gates; clear the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones. Raise up a banner over the peoples.

11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to Daughter Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.”

12And they will call them, “The holy people, the redeemed of Yahweh”; and you will be called, “Sought Out, a city not forsaken.”