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Upon your walls, Jerusalem, I appointed watchmen.
All day and all night they will never be silent.
You who keep reminding the Lord, do not rest!
Do not give him rest
until he establishes Jerusalem,
and he causes her to be praised on the earth.

The Lord swore by his right hand
and by his strong arm:
    I will certainly never again give up your grain as food
        for your enemies,
    and foreigners will not drink the sweet new wine you worked for.
    For those who pick fruit will eat it, and they will praise the Lord,
    and those who harvest grapes will drink in my holy courtyards.

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I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem;
    all day and all night they shall never be silent.
You who profess Yahweh have no rest.
    And you must not give him rest until he establishes,
        and until he makes[a] Jerusalem an object of praise[b] in the earth.
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
    and by his mighty arm,[c]
“Surely I will never again give your grain as food to your enemies,[d]
    and surely foreigners[e] shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored.”
But those who gather it shall eat it, and they shall praise Yahweh,
    and those who gather it shall drink it in my holy courts.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 62:7 Literally “places”
  2. Isaiah 62:7 Literally “a praise”
  3. Isaiah 62:8 Literally “the arm of his might”
  4. Isaiah 62:8 Literally “those who are hostile to you”
  5. Isaiah 62:8 Literally “sons of a foreign country”
  6. Isaiah 62:9 Literally “the courts of my holiness”