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O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;
    they will pray day and night, continually.
    Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.
Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,
    until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
The Lord has sworn to Jerusalem by his own strength:
    “I will never again hand you over to your enemies.
Never again will foreign warriors come
    and take away your grain and new wine.
You raised the grain, and you will eat it,
    praising the Lord.
Within the courtyards of the Temple,
    you yourselves will drink the wine you have pressed.”

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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”