² The nations will see your righteousness.
    World leaders will be blinded by your glory.
And you will be given a new name
    by the Lord’s own mouth.
³ The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see—
    a splendid crown in the hand of God.
⁴ Never 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.
⁵ Your 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.

¹⁹ Sometimes it seems as though we never belonged to you,
    as though we had never been known as your people.