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49 lines
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# Chapter 62
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1 Because I love Zion,
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I will not keep still.
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Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
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I cannot remain silent.
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I will not stop praying for her
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until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
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and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.
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2 The nations will see your righteousness.
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World leaders will be blinded by your glory.
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And you will be given a new name
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by the Lord’s own mouth.
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3 The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see—
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a splendid crown in the hand of God.
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4 Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City”
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or “The Desolate Land.”
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Your new name will be “The City of God’s Delight”
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and “The Bride of God,”
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for the Lord delights in you
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and will claim you as his bride.
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5 Your children will commit themselves to you, O Jerusalem,
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just as a young man commits himself to his bride.
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Then God will rejoice over you
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as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
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6 O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;
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they will pray day and night, continually.
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Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.
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7 Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,
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until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
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8 The Lord has sworn to Jerusalem by his own strength:
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“I will never again hand you over to your enemies.
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Never again will foreign warriors come
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and take away your grain and new wine.
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9 You raised the grain, and you will eat it,
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praising the Lord.
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Within the courtyards of the Temple,
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you yourselves will drink the wine you have pressed.”
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10 Go out through the gates!
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Prepare the highway for my people to return!
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Smooth out the road; pull out the boulders;
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raise a flag for all the nations to see.
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11 The Lord has sent this message to every land:
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“Tell the people of Israel,
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‘Look, your Savior is coming.
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See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.’”
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12 They will be called “The Holy People”
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and “The People Redeemed by the Lord.”
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And Jerusalem will be known as “The Desirable Place”
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and “The City No Longer Forsaken.” |