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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. |
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