Isaiah 62:4

New Living Translation

⁴Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City”^[a]
    or “The Desolate Land.”^[b]
Your new name will be “The City of God’s Delight”^[c]
    and “The Bride of God,”^[d]
for the Lord delights in you
    and will claim you as his bride.

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Footnotes

62:4a Hebrew Azubah, which means “forsaken.”
62:4b Hebrew Shemamah, which means “desolate.”
62:4c Hebrew Hephzibah, which means “my delight is in her.”
62:4d Hebrew Beulah, which means “married.”

Isaiah 62:4

New International Version

⁴No longer will they call you Deserted,^(A)
    or name your land Desolate.^(B)
But you will be called Hephzibah,^[a]^(C)
    and your land Beulah^[b];
for the Lord will take delight^(D) in you,
    and your land will be married.^(E)

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Footnotes

Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.
Isaiah 62:4 Beulah means married.

Zephaniah 3:17

New Living Translation

¹⁷For the Lord your God is living among you.
    He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness.
    With his love, he will calm all your fears.^[a]
    He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”

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Footnotes

3:17 Or He will be silent in his love. Greek and Syriac versions read He will renew you with his love.

Zephaniah 3:17

New International Version

¹⁷The Lord your God is with you,
    the Mighty Warrior who saves.^(A)
He will take great delight^(B) in you;
    in his love he will no longer rebuke you,^(C)
    but will rejoice over you with singing.”^(D)

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Isaiah 62:12

New Living Translation

¹²They will be called “The Holy People”
and “The People Redeemed by the Lord.”
And Jerusalem will be known as “The Desirable Place”
and “The City No Longer Forsaken.”

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Isaiah 62:12

New International Version

¹²They will be called^(A) the Holy People,^(B)
the Redeemed^(C) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.^(D)

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Hosea 2:19-20

New Living Translation

¹⁹I will make you my wife forever,
    showing you righteousness and justice,
    unfailing love and compassion.
²⁰I will be faithful to you and make you mine,
    and you will finally know me as the Lord.

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Hosea 2:19-20

New International Version

¹⁹I will betroth^(A) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in^[a] righteousness and justice,^(B)
    in^[b] love and compassion.^(C)
²⁰I will betroth you in^[c] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge^(D) the Lord.^(E)

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Hosea 2:19 Or with
Hosea 2:19 Or with
Hosea 2:20 Or with

Jeremiah 32:41

New Living Translation

⁴¹I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land.

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Jeremiah 32:41

New International Version

⁴¹I will rejoice^(A) in doing them good^(B) and will assuredly plant^(C) them in this land with all my heart and soul.^(D)

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Isaiah 54:5-7

New Living Translation

⁵For your Creator will be your husband;
    the Lord of Heaven’s Armies is his name!
He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
    the God of all the earth.
⁶For the Lord has called you back from your grief—
    as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband,”
    says your God.
⁷“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
    but with great compassion I will take you back.

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Isaiah 54:5-7

New International Version

⁵For your Maker^(A) is your husband^(B)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One^(C) of Israel is your Redeemer;^(D)
    he is called the God of all the earth.^(E)
⁶The Lord will call you back^(F)
    as if you were a wife deserted^(G) and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,^(H)
    only to be rejected,” says your God.
⁷“For a brief moment^(I) I abandoned^(J) you,
    but with deep compassion^(K) I will bring you back.^(L)

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Isaiah 61:10

New Living Translation

¹⁰I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God!
    For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation
    and draped me in a robe of righteousness.
I am like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding
    or a bride with her jewels.

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Isaiah 61:10

New International Version

¹⁰I delight greatly in the Lord;
    my soul rejoices^(A) in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
    and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,^(B)
as a bridegroom adorns his head^(C) like a priest,
    and as a bride^(D) adorns herself with her jewels.

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1 Peter 2:10

New Living Translation

¹⁰“Once you had no identity as a people;
now you are God’s people.
Once you received no mercy;
now you have received God’s mercy.”^[a]

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2:10 Hos 1:6, 9; 2:23.

1 Peter 2:10

New International Version

¹⁰Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God;^(A) once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Psalm 149:4

New Living Translation

⁴For the Lord delights in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.

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Psalm 149:4

New International Version

⁴For the Lord takes delight^(A) in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.^(B)

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Isaiah 62:5

New Living Translation

⁵Your children will commit themselves to you, O Jerusalem,
just as a young man commits himself to his bride.
Then God will rejoice over you
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

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Isaiah 62:5

New International Version

⁵As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom^(A) rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice^(B) over you.

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Isaiah 54:1

New Living Translation

Future Glory for Jerusalem

54 “Sing, O childless woman,
    you who have never given birth!
Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem,
    you who have never been in labor.
For the desolate woman now has more children
    than the woman who lives with her husband,”
    says the Lord.

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Isaiah 54:1

New International Version

The Future Glory of Zion

54 “Sing, barren woman,^(A)
    you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,^(B)
    you who were never in labor;^(C)
because more are the children^(D) of the desolate^(E) woman
    than of her who has a husband,^(F)”
says the Lord.

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Jeremiah 3:14

New Living Translation

¹⁴“Return home, you wayward children,”
    says the Lord,
    “for I am your master.
I will bring you back to the land of Israel^[a]—
    one from this town and two from that family—
    from wherever you are scattered.

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Footnotes

3:14 Hebrew to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:14

New International Version

¹⁴“Return,^(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.^(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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Isaiah 60:15

New Living Translation

¹⁵“Though you were once despised and hated,
with no one traveling through you,
I will make you beautiful forever,
a joy to all generations.

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Isaiah 60:15

New International Version

¹⁵“Although you have been forsaken^(A) and hated,
with no one traveling^(B) through,
I will make you the everlasting pride^(C)
and the joy^(D) of all generations.

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