[1] For 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 burns. [2] The nations shall see your
righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new
name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name. [3] You shall also be a crown
of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your
God. [4] You 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 Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. [5] For
as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. [6]
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their
peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest, [7] and give him
no rest, until he establish, and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the
earth. [8] Yahweh 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 shall not drink your new wine, for which you have
labored: [9] but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise
Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my
sanctuary. [10] Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of
the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an
ensign for the peoples. [11] Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of
the earth, Say you to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. [12] They
shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be
called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
