1 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,and her salvation as a burning torch.
2 The nations shall see your righteousness,and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new namethat the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken,and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,and your land Married;for the Lord delights in you,and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,so shall your sons marry you,and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,so shall your God rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem,I have set watchmen;all the day and all the nightthey shall never be silent.You who put the Lord in remembrance,take no rest,
7 and give him no restuntil he establishes Jerusalemand makes it a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn by his right handand by his mighty arm:“I will not again give your grainto be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your winefor which you have labored;
9 but those who garner it shall eat itand praise the Lord,and those who gather it shall drink itin the courts of my sanctuary.”
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway;clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples.
11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimedto the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes;behold, his reward is with him,and his recompense before him.”
12 And they shall be called The Holy People,The Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out,A City Not Forsaken.