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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"And I won't remain silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I won't stay quiet, until her vindication shines out like brightness, and her salvation like a burning torch. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The nations will see your vindication, and all the kings your glory; and people will call you 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 splendor in the LORD's hand, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And you'll no longer be called 'Deserted,' and your land will no longer be called 'Desolate'; but people will call you 'Hephzibah,' and your land 'Beulah' — for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"For just as a young man marries a maiden, so your sons will marry you; and just as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; all day and all night they won't remain silent. You who make mention of the LORD, take no rest, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and give him no rest until he prepares, establishes and makes Jerusalem a song of praise throughout the earth. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: 'I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; never again will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have toiled; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9but surely those who harvest it will eat it and praise the name of the LORD, and those who gather it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary,' says your God." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"Pass through the gates! prepare the way for the people! Build up! Build up the highway! Clear it of stumbling stones, speak among the peoples. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Here is the LORD! Proclaim to the ends of the earth, say to the inhabitants of Zion: 'See, your salvation is coming! See, his reward is with him, and his recompenses are before him.' |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12People will call them, 'The Holy People,' 'The Redeemed of the LORD'; and they will call you, 'Sought After,' 'The City Not Deserted.'" |
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