Isaiah 62
1FOR Sion’s sake I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not rest; until the righteousness thereof break forth as light, and my salvation blaze like a torch;
2and nations see thy righteousness, and kings this glory of thine. When he shall call thee by a new name which the Lord Himself will give thee;
3then thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4And thou shalt no more be called, Forsaken; nor shall thy land any more be called The desert; but thy name shall be called My delight; and that of thy country, The inhabited land. Because the Lord is well pleased with thee, therefore thy land shall be thickly inhabited:
5and as a youth cohabiting with a virgin bride, so shall thy sons inhabit it; and as a bridegroom will rejoice in his bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.
6Now upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen all the day; and all the night, they will not cease continually to mention the Lord; for there is none like you.
7When He shall have re-established and made Jerusalem a boast on the earth—
8the Lord hath sworn by His glory and by the power of His arm: I will no more give thy corn and thy food to thine enemies; nor shall the sons of strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.
9But they who reap the harvest shall eat and praise the Lord; and they who gather the vintage shall drink wine in My holy courts.
10Go through My gates and prepare the way for My people and throw the stones out of the way. Erect a standard for the nations.
11For lo! the Lord hath published this to the end of the earth. Say to the daughter of Sion, Behold the Saviour is come for thee, having His own reward and His work before Him.
12And He will call this a holy people, redeemed by the Lord; and thou shalt be called the city Sought and not Forsaken.