^10 (A)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and ^(B)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
    but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
^11 (C)Your gates shall be open continually;
    day and night they shall not be shut,
^(D)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
    with their kings led in procession.
^12 (E)For the nation and kingdom
    that will not serve you shall perish;
    those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
^13 (F)The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
    the cypress, the plane, and ^(G)the pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
    and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
^14 (H)The sons of those who afflicted you
    shall come bending low to you,
^(I)and all who despised you
    shall bow down at your feet;
^(J)they shall call you the City of the Lord,
    the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

^15 (K)Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
    with no one passing through,
^(L)I will make you majestic forever,
    a joy from age to age.
^16 (M)You shall suck the milk of nations;
    you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that ^(N)I, the Lord, am your Savior
    and your Redeemer, ^(O)the Mighty One of Jacob.

¹⁷ Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
    and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
    instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
    ^(P)and your taskmasters righteousness.
^18 (Q)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    devastation or destruction within your borders;
^(R)you shall call your walls Salvation,
    and your gates Praise.

^19 (S)The sun shall be no more
    your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
    give you light;^[a]
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and your God will be your glory.^[b]
20 Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and ^(T)your days of mourning shall be ended.
^21 (U)Your people shall all be righteous;
    ^(V)they shall possess the land forever,
^(W)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.^[c]
22 (X)The least one shall become a clan,
    and the smallest one a mighty nation;
^(Y)I am the Lord;
    in its time I will hasten it.

^5 (AJ)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
    foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
^6 (AK)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
    they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
^(AL)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
    and in their glory you shall boast.
^7 (AM)Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;
    instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
    they shall have everlasting joy.

^8 (AN)For I the Lord love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrong;^[g]
(AO)I will faithfully give them their recompense,
    ^(AP)and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
⁹ Their offspring shall be known among the nations,
    and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
    that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

^10 (AQ)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
^(AR)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself ^(AS)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    ^(AT)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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 ^(AU)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.