Isaiah 62:1–9

¹For 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.↗

²The 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.↗

³You will also be a crown of beauty in the LORD’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.↗

⁴You 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.↗

⁵For 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.↗

⁶I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest,↗

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

⁸The 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 labored,↗

⁹but 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.”↗