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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 62 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/62.htm" 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will not keep still.</p><p class="line1">Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">I cannot remain silent.</p><p class="line1">I will not stop praying for her</p><p class="line2">until her righteousness shines like the dawn,</p><p class="line2">and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The nations will see your righteousness.</p><p class="line2">World leaders will be blinded by your glory.</p><p class="line1">And you will be given a new name</p><p class="line2">by the LORD’s own mouth.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The LORD will hold you in his hand for all to see—</p><p class="line2">a splendid crown in the hand of God.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a></p><p class="line2">or “The Desolate Land.”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1">Your new name will be “The City of God’s Delight”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line2">and “The Bride of God,”<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a></p><p class="line1">for the LORD delights in you</p><p class="line2">and will claim you as his bride.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Your children will commit themselves to you, O Jerusalem,</p><p class="line2">just as a young man commits himself to his bride.</p><p class="line1">Then God will rejoice over you</p><p class="line2">as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;</p><p class="line2">they will pray day and night, continually.</p><p class="line2">Take no rest, all you who pray to the LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Give the LORD no rest until he completes his work,</p><p class="line2">until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The LORD has sworn to Jerusalem by his own strength:</p><p class="line2">“I will never again hand you over to your enemies.</p><p class="line1">Never again will foreign warriors come</p><p class="line2">and take away your grain and new wine.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You raised the grain, and you will eat it,</p><p class="line2">praising the LORD.</p><p class="line1">Within the courtyards of the Temple,</p><p class="line2">you yourselves will drink the wine you have pressed.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Go out through the gates!</p><p class="line2">Prepare the highway for my people to return!</p><p class="line1">Smooth out the road; pull out the boulders;</p><p class="line2">raise a flag for all the nations to see.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The LORD has sent this message to every land:</p><p class="line2">“Tell the people of Israel,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a></p><p class="line1">‘Look, your Savior is coming.</p><p class="line2">See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.’”</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They will be called “The Holy People”</p><p class="line2">and “The People Redeemed by the LORD.”</p><p class="line1">And Jerusalem will be known as “The Desirable Place”</p><p class="line2">and “The City No Longer Forsaken.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">62:4a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Azubah,</span><span class="ft"> which means “forsaken.”</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">62:4b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Shemamah,</span><span class="ft"> which means “desolate.”</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">62:4c </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Hephzibah,</span><span class="ft"> which means “my delight is in her.”</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">62:4d </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Beulah,</span><span class="ft"> which means “married.”</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">62:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Tell the daughter of Zion.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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