Isaiah 62:6-12

Common English Bible

⁶ Upon your walls, Jerusalem,
    I have appointed sentinels.
Continually, all day and all night,
    they won’t keep silent.
You who call on the Lord, don’t rest,
⁷     and don’t allow God to rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem,
    and makes it the praise of the earth.
⁸ The Lord has promised
    with raised hand and strong arm:
    I will never again give your grain
    as food for your enemies.
    Foreigners won’t drink your wine
    for which you labored.
⁹ Those who harvest will eat it
    and will praise the Lord;
    those who gather will drink it
    in my holy courtyards.

¹⁰ Pass through, pass through the gates;
    prepare the way for the people!
Build, build the road;
    clear away the stones!
    Raise up a signal for the peoples.
¹¹ This is what the Lord announced
    to the earth’s distant regions:
Say to Daughter Zion, “Look! Your deliverer arrives,
    bringing reward and payment!”
¹² They will be called The Holy People,
    Redeemed By the Lord.
And you will be called Sought After—
    A City That Is Not Abandoned.