Isaiah 62

1For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.Cross-references: Ps 51:18 · Ps 98:1 · Ps 102:13 · Ps 122:6 · Ps 137:6 · Prov 4:18 · +15 more

2The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Gen 17:15 · Gen 32:28 · Ps 72:10 · Ps 138:4 · Isa 49:6 · +18 more

3You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.Cross-references: Isa 28:5 · Zech 9:16 · Luke 2:14 · 1Thess 2:19

4You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.Cross-references: Ps 149:4 · Isa 32:14 · Isa 49:14 · Isa 54:1 · Isa 54:5 · Isa 60:15 · +16 more

5For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.Cross-references: Ps 45:11 · Song 3:11 · Isa 49:18 · Isa 62:4 · Isa 65:19 · Jer 32:41 · +1 more

6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,Cross-references: Gen 32:12 · Gen 32:26 · Num 14:17 · 2Chr 8:14 · Ps 74:2 · Ps 74:18 · +22 more

7and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.Cross-references: Isa 60:18 · Isa 61:11 · Jer 33:9 · Zeph 3:19 · Matt 6:9 · Matt 6:13 · +2 more

8Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Deut 28:31 · Deut 28:33 · Deut 32:40 · Judg 6:3 · Isa 1:7 · +3 more

9but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 14:23 · Deut 16:11 · Deut 16:14

10Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.Cross-references: Ex 17:15 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 11:16 · Isa 18:3 · Isa 40:3 · +7 more

11Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’”Cross-references: Ps 98:1 · Isa 40:9 · Isa 49:4 · Isa 49:6 · Zech 9:9 · Matt 21:5 · +4 more

12They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.Cross-references: Deut 7:6 · Deut 26:19 · Deut 28:9 · Ps 107:2 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 42:16 · +15 more