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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 be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Go 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken. |
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