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href="../isaiah/61.htm" title="Isaiah 61">◄</a> Isaiah 62 <a href="../isaiah/63.htm" title="Isaiah 63">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/62.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Zion’s Coming Salvation</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,</span><br /><span class="indent">and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and her salvation as a burning torch.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The nations shall see your righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all the kings your glory,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and you shall be called by a new name</span><br /><span class="indent">that the mouth of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will give.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You shall no more be termed Forsaken,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Azubah">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Shemamah">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Hephzibah">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and your land Married;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Beulah">d</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> delights in you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your land shall be married.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For as a young man marries a young woman,</span><br /><span class="indent">so shall your sons marry you,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,</span><br /><span class="indent">so shall your God rejoice over you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On your walls, O Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent">I have set watchmen;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">all the day and all the night</span><br /><span class="indent">they shall never be silent.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">You who put the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in remembrance,</span><br /><span class="indent">take no rest,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and give him no rest</span><br /><span class="indent">until he establishes Jerusalem</span><br /><span class="indent">and makes it a praise in the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sworn by his right hand</span><br /><span class="indent">and by his mighty arm:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“I will not again give your grain</span><br /><span class="indent">to be food for your enemies,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and foreigners shall not drink your wine</span><br /><span class="indent">for which you have labored;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">but those who garner it shall eat it</span><br /><span class="indent">and praise the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and those who gather it shall drink it</span><br /><span class="indent">in the courts of my sanctuary.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in my holy courts">e</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Go through, go through the gates;</span><br /><span class="indent">prepare the way for the people;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">build up, build up the highway;</span><br /><span class="indent">clear it of stones;</span><br /><span class="indent">lift up a signal over the peoples.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has proclaimed</span><br /><span class="indent">to the end of the earth:</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Say to the daughter of Zion,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Behold, your salvation comes;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">behold, his reward is with him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his recompense before him.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/62-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And they shall be called The Holy People,</span><br /><span class="indent">The Redeemed of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and you shall be called Sought Out,</span><br /><span class="indent">A City Not Forsaken.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i>Azubah</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i>Shemamah</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i>Hephzibah</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i>Beulah</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">in</span> my holy courts</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, 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