 1 For Zion's sake I will not be silent and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until its righteousness goes out as brightness and her salvation like a burning lamp. 2 The nations will see your righteousness and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will name. 3 You also will be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4 You will no longer be called forsaken. Nor will your land any more be called Desolate. But you will be called my Delight is in her, and your land, Married. For the Lord delights in you, And your land Married. 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so will your sons marry you. As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so will your God rejoice over you. 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem, who will not be silent day and night. You who remember the Lord, must not be silent. 7 Give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by the strength of His arm, Surely I will no longer give your grain to be food for your enemies. The sons of strangers will not drink your wine for which you have labored. 9 But its gatherers will eat it and praise the Lord. Those who collected it will drink it in my holy courts. 10 Pass through the gates. Prepare the way of the people. Raise up the highway. Gather out the stones. Lift up a banner for the people. 11 Behold, the Lord has sent a message to the end of the earth, Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, His reward is with Him and His work before Him. 12 They will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord. You will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.
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