Isaiah 60:15-22

English Standard Version

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.
¹⁶^(C)You shall suck the milk of nations;
    you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that ^(D)I, the Lord, am your Savior
    and your Redeemer, ^(E)the Mighty One of Jacob.

¹⁷Instead 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
    ^(F)and your taskmasters righteousness.
¹⁸^(G)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
    devastation or destruction within your borders;
^(H)you shall call your walls Salvation,
    and your gates Praise.

¹⁹^(I)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]
²⁰Your sun shall no more go down,
    nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
    and ^(J)your days of mourning shall be ended.
²¹^(K)Your people shall all be righteous;
    ^(L)they shall possess the land forever,
^(M)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.^[c]
²²^(N)The least one shall become a clan,
    and the smallest one a mighty nation;
^(O)I am the Lord;
    in its time I will hasten it.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 60:19 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Targum add by night
Isaiah 60:19 Or your beauty
Isaiah 60:21 Or that I might display my beauty

Isaiah 60:15-22

New American Standard Bible

¹⁵“Whereas you have been ^(A)forsaken and ^(B)hated
With no one passing through,
I will make you an ^(C)object of pride forever,
A joy from generation to generation.
¹⁶You will also ^(D)suck the milk of nations,
And suck the breast of kings;
Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your ^(E)Savior
And your ^(F)Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
¹⁷Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
And instead of iron I will bring silver,
And instead of wood, bronze,
And instead of stones, iron.
And I will make peace your administrators,
And righteousness your overseers.
¹⁸^(G)Violence will not be heard again in your land,
Nor ^(H)devastation or destruction within your borders;
But you will call your ^(I)walls salvation, and your ^(J)gates praise.
¹⁹No longer will you have the ^(K)sun for light by day,
Nor will the moon give you light for brightness;
But you will have the ^(L)Lord as an everlasting light,
And your ^(M)God as your ^[a]glory.
²⁰Your ^(N)sun will no longer set,
Nor will your moon wane;
For you will have the Lord as an everlasting light,
And the days of your ^(O)mourning will be over.
²¹Then all your ^(P)people will be righteous;
They will ^(Q)possess the land forever,
The branch of ^[b]My planting,
The ^(R)work of My hands,
That I may be ^(S)glorified.
²²The ^(T)smallest one will become a thousand,
And the least one a mighty nation.
I, the Lord, will bring it about quickly in its time.”