^6 (I)I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall ^[f]never hold their peace day or night.
You who ^[g]make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
⁷ And give Him no rest till He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem ^(J)a praise in the earth.

⁸ The Lord has sworn by His right hand
And by the arm of His strength:
“Surely I will no longer ^(K)give your grain
As food for your enemies;
And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,
For which you have labored.
⁹ But those who have gathered it shall eat it,
And praise the Lord;
Those who have brought it together shall drink it ^(L)in My holy courts.”

¹⁰ Go through,
Go through the gates!
^(M)Prepare the way for the people;
Build up,
Build up the highway!
Take out the stones,
^(N)Lift up a banner for the peoples!

¹¹ Indeed the Lord has proclaimed
To the end of the world:
^(O)“Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Surely your salvation is coming;
Behold, His ^(P)reward is with Him,
And His ^[h]work before Him.’ ”
¹² And they shall call them The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
And you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.

“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

² Why ^(A)is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

³ “I have ^(B)trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me.
For I have trodden them in My anger,
And trampled them in My fury;
Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
And I have stained all My robes.
⁴ For the ^(C)day of vengeance is in My heart,
And the year of My redeemed has come.
^5 (D)I looked, but ^(E)there was no one to help,
And I wondered
That there was no one to uphold;
Therefore My own ^(F)arm brought salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me.
⁶ I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,
Made them drunk in My fury,
And brought down their strength to the earth.”

¹¹ Then he ^(N)remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying:
“Where is He who ^(O)brought them up out of the sea
With the ^[c]shepherd of His flock?
^(P)Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,
¹² Who led them by the right hand of Moses,
^(Q)With His glorious arm,
^(R)Dividing the water before them
To make for Himself an everlasting name,
^13 (S)Who led them through the deep,
As a horse in the wilderness,
That they might not stumble?”

¹⁴ As a beast goes down into the valley,
And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest,
So You lead Your people,
^(T)To make Yourself a glorious name.

⁶ But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all ^(E)our righteousnesses are like ^[b]filthy rags;
We all ^(F)fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
⁷ And there is no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And have ^[c]consumed us because of our iniquities.

⁸ But now, O Lord,
You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our ^(G)potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand.
⁹ Do not be furious, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
¹⁰ Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹ Our holy and beautiful ^[d]temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all ^(H)our pleasant things ^[e]are laid waste.
^12 (I)Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?
^(J)Will You ^[f]hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?