(A)You shall no more be termed (B)Forsaken,[a]
    and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[b]
(C)but you shall be called (D)My Delight Is in Her,[c]
    and your land Married;[d]
for the Lord delights in you,
    and your land shall be married.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Azubah
  2. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Shemamah
  3. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Hephzibah
  4. Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Beulah

17 (A)The Lord your God is in your midst,
    (B)a mighty one who will save;
(C)he will rejoice over you with gladness;
    he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

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12 (A)And they shall be called The Holy People,
    The Redeemed of the Lord;
(B)and you shall be called Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken.

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19 And I will betroth you to me (A)forever. (B)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 (C)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And (D)you shall know the Lord.

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41 (A)I will rejoice in doing them good, (B)and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

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(A)For your Maker is your husband,
    the Lord of hosts is his name;
(B)and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
    (C)the God of the whole earth he is called.
(D)For the Lord has called you
    like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like a wife of youth when she is cast off,
    says your God.
(E)For a brief moment I deserted you,
    but with great compassion I will gather you.

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10 (A)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
(B)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself (C)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    (D)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

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

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For the Lord (A)takes pleasure in his people;
    he (B)adorns the humble with salvation.

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For as a young man marries a young woman,
    so (A)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
    so (B)shall your God rejoice over you.

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The Eternal Covenant of Peace

54 (A)“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
    break forth into singing and cry aloud,
    you who have not been in labor!
For the children of (B)the desolate one (C)will be more
    than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.

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14 (A)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
    (B)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
    and I will bring you to Zion.

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15 (A)Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
    with no one passing through,
(B)I will make you majestic forever,
    a joy from age to age.

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