Isaiah 62:3-12 ▼

3 You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the LORD, a royal turban in the hand of your God.

4 You will no longer be called, |Abandoned,| and your land will no longer be called |Desolate.| Indeed, you will be called |My Delight is in Her,| and your land |Married.| For the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him.

5 As a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

6 I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don't be silent!

7 Don't allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

8 The LORD swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: |I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.

9 But those who harvest the grain will eat it, and will praise the LORD. Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary.|

10 Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!

11 Look, the LORD announces to the entire earth: |Say to Daughter Zion, 'Look, your deliverer comes! Look, his reward is with him and his reward goes before him!'|

12 They will be called, |The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the LORD.| You will be called, |Sought After, City Not Abandoned.|