Isaiah Chapter 62

Isaiah’s Prayer for Jerusalem

                        ¹ For Zion’s sake I’ll speak to God;

                                    for Jerusalem’s sake I won’t keep still,

                              until your goodness glows brightly,

                                    and your salvation radiates like a burning torch;

                              ² so the nations can witness your goodness

                                    and kings can gaze at your glory.

                        Yahveh himself will give you a new name.

                              ³ You’ll be a beautiful crown in his hand,

                                    a royal diadem he holds up high.

                              ⁴ You won’t be called Abandoned [Azubah] anymore

                                          or your land be named Desolate [Shemamah];

                                    you’ll be My Delight Is in It [Hephzibah],

                                          and your land will be Married [Beulah],

                                    because he delights in you,

                                          and your land will be married to him.

                        ⁵ Like a young man marries a virgin,

                                    your sons will marry you, Jerusalem;

                              like a groom is happy over a bride,

                                    your God will be happy over you.                             

Is 62:1-5

                        ⁶ I’ve stationed watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem,

                                    not to be silent day or night,

                              but to remember you to Yahveh

                                    ⁷ till he makes you something worth praising in the world.

                        ⁸ He has sworn by his right hand and strong arm,

                              “I’ll never again let your enemies eat your grain

                                    or foreigners drink the new wine you labored for.

                              ⁹ But the ones that put the grain in the granary

                                    will eat it and praise me;

                              the ones that pick the grapes

                                    will drink the wine in the courts of my sanctuary.”

Is 62:6-9

                        ¹⁰ Go out through the gates;

                                    clear the way for my people.

                              Build a highway so they can return;

                                    get the loose rocks off the road.

                              Hoist a flag the nations can see.

                        ¹¹ Yahveh has declared all over the world,

                              “Tell Zion its salvation’s coming;

                              he’s bringing his reward with him.”

                        ¹² They’ll call you The Holy People [Ha‘am Haggadosh],

                                    Yahveh’s Redeemed [Ge’ule-adonai],

                              The Sought For, A City No Longer Forsaken.                  

Is 62:10-12