Chapter 62

Chapter 62

¹ Till I work salvation for Zion, I will give no rest to the nations, until I bring consolation to Jerusalem, I will give no rest to the kingdoms, till her light be revealed as the early dawn, and her salvation shall burn as a lamp.

² And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and they shall call thee by a new name, which the Word of the Lord shall declare.

³ Ye shall be a crown of joy before the Lord, and a diadem of glory before thy God.

⁴ Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Aběday Rěoothee Bahh, and thy land Inhabited: for the Lord shall delight in thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.

⁵ For as a young man dwelleth with a virgin, thus thy sons shall dwell in thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

⁶ Behold, the works of thy righteous fathers, O city of Jerusalem, are right, and kept by me all the day and all the night, continually; the remembrance of thine excellencies is declared before the Lord, it shall not fail you.

⁷ Their remembrance shall not cease from before Him, till He establish and make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

⁸ The Lord hath sworn by His right hand, and by the arm of His strength, I will no more give thy corn to be food for thy enemies; and the sons of the Gentiles shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.

⁹ But they that gather the corn, they shall eat it, and offer praise before the Lord; and they that tread out the wine, they shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

¹⁰ O prophets, pass through and return through the gates; turn the heart of the people into the right way; bring good tidings of good things, and consolations to the righteous, who remove the thoughts of an evil imagination, which are like a stone of stumbling; lift up a standard “ for the people.

¹¹ Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the ends of the world, Say ye to the congregation of Zion, Behold, thy Redeemer shall be revealed; Behold, the reward for them that do His word is with Him: and all their works are manifest before Him.

¹² And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called Teviātha, (i. e. “Sought out”), A city not forsaken.”