Isaiah 62:1-7
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o For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
p until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
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q The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
r and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
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You shall be s a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
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t You shall no more be termed u Forsaken,
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,
r but you shall be called v My Delight Is in Her,
and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
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For as a young man marries a young woman,
so w shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so x shall your God rejoice over you.
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On your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set y watchmen;
all the day and all the night
they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
take no rest,
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and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it z a praise in the earth.
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Cross References
Isaiah 62:6 - 7
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest.
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Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
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Isaiah 60:3
And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Psalms 98:2
The Lord has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
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Isaiah 60:14
The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.
Revelation 3:12
The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
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Zechariah 9:16
On that day the Lord their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.
Isaiah 54:11 - 12
O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
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Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Children of the living God.
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Isaiah 54:6
For the Lord has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.
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Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.
Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
Isaiah 54:7
For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.
Isaiah 60:15
Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.
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Isaiah 62:2
The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give.
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Malachi 3:12
Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.
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Isaiah 51:18
There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.
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Isaiah 65:19
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.
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Isaiah 52:8
The voice of your watchmen - they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Zephaniah 3:20
At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says the Lord.
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