Isaiah 62:1-63:6

English Standard Version

Zion's Coming Salvation

62 ^(A)For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
    and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
^(B)until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
    and her salvation as a burning torch.
²^(C)The nations shall see your righteousness,
    and all the kings your glory,
^(D)and you shall be called by a new name
    that the mouth of the Lord will give.
³You shall be ^(E)a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
    and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⁴^(F)You shall no more be termed ^(G)Forsaken,^[a]
    and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,^[b]
^(H)but you shall be called ^(I)My Delight Is in Her,^[c]
    and your land Married;^[d]
for the Lord delights in you,
    and your land shall be married.
⁵For as a young man marries a young woman,
    so ^(J)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
    so ^(K)shall your God rejoice over you.

⁶On your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have set ^(L)watchmen;
all the day and all the night
    they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
    take no rest,
⁷and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it ^(M)a praise in the earth.
⁸The Lord has sworn ^(N)by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give ^(O)your grain
    to be food for your enemies,
^(P)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
    for which you have labored;
⁹but ^(Q)those who garner it shall eat it
    and praise the Lord,
and ^(R)those who gather it shall drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”^[e]

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates;
    ^(S)prepare the way for the people;
^(T)build up, build up the highway;
    clear it of stones;
    ^(U)lift up a signal over the peoples.
¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
    to the end of the earth:
^(V)Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ^(W)“Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him.”
¹²^(X)And they shall be called The Holy People,
    The Redeemed of the Lord;
^(Y)and you shall be called Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken.

The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from ^(Z)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from ^(AA)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    ^(AB)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

²Why is your ^(AC)apparel red,
and your garments like his ^(AD)who treads in the winepress?

³^(AE)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    ^(AF)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood^[f] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
⁴^(AG)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption^[g] had come.
⁵I looked, but ^(AH)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
⁶I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    ^(AI)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

Footnotes

Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Azubah
Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Shemamah
Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Hephzibah
Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Beulah
Isaiah 62:9 Or in my holy courts
Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

Revelation 19

English Standard Version

Rejoicing in Heaven

19 After this I heard ^(A)what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out,

“Hallelujah!
^(B)Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
² for ^(C)his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged ^(D)the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and ^(E)has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

³Once more they cried out,

“Hallelujah!
^(F)The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”

⁴And ^(G)the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” ⁵And from the throne came a voice saying,

^(H)“Praise our God,
all you his servants,
^(I)you who fear him,
small and great.”

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

⁶Then I heard what seemed to be ^(J)the voice of a great multitude, like ^(K)the roar of many waters and ^(L)like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,

“Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God
    the Almighty ^(M)reigns.
⁷Let us rejoice and exult
    and give him the glory,
for ^(N)the marriage of the Lamb has come,
    and ^(O)his Bride has made herself ready;
⁸^(P)it was granted her to clothe herself
    with fine linen, bright and pure”—

for the fine linen is ^(Q)the righteous deeds of the saints.

⁹And the angel said^[a] to me, “Write this: ^(R)Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, ^(S)“These are the true words of God.” ¹⁰Then ^(T)I fell down at his feet to worship him, ^(U)but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to ^(V)the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

The Rider on a White Horse

¹¹Then I saw ^(W)heaven opened, and behold, ^(X)a white horse! The one sitting on it is called ^(Y)Faithful and True, and ^(Z)in righteousness he judges and makes war. ¹²^(AA)His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are ^(AB)many diadems, and he has ^(AC)a name written that no one knows but himself. ¹³He is clothed in ^(AD)a robe dipped in^[b] blood, and the name by which he is called is ^(AE)The Word of God. ¹⁴And the armies of heaven, ^(AF)arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, ^(AG)were following him on white horses. ¹⁵^(AH)From his mouth comes a sharp sword ^(AI)with which to strike down the nations, and ^(AJ)he will rule^[c] them with a rod of iron. ^(AK)He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. ¹⁶On his robe and on his thigh ^(AL)he has a name written, ^(AM)King of kings and Lord of lords.

¹⁷Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to ^(AN)all the birds that fly directly overhead, ^(AO)“Come, gather for ^(AP)the great supper of God, ¹⁸^(AQ)to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,^[d] both small and great.” ¹⁹And I saw ^(AR)the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies ^(AS)gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army. ²⁰And the beast was captured, and with it ^(AT)the false prophet ^(AU)who in its presence^[e] had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who ^(AV)worshiped its image. These two were ^(AW)thrown alive into the lake of ^(AX)fire that burns with sulfur. ²¹And the rest were slain by the sword ^(AY)that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and ^(AZ)all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

Footnotes

Revelation 19:9 Greek he said
Revelation 19:13 Some manuscripts sprinkled with
Revelation 19:15 Greek shepherd
Revelation 19:18 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Revelation 19:20 Or on its behalf