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Isaiah 62

¹For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. ²And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of YHWH shall name. ³Thou shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. ⁴Thou shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzi-bah, and your land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and your land shall be married. ⁵For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall your sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over thee. ⁶I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest, ⁷and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. ⁸YHWH hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for yours enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you hast labored: ⁹but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary. ¹⁰Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples. ¹¹Behold, YHWH hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. ¹²And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

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