Isaiah 62-64

New International Version

Zion’s New Name

62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,^(A)
    for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,
till her vindication^(B) shines out like the dawn,^(C)
    her salvation^(D) like a blazing torch.
²The nations^(E) will see your vindication,
    and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name^(F)
    that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
³You will be a crown^(G) of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
    a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⁴No longer will they call you Deserted,^(H)
    or name your land Desolate.^(I)
But you will be called Hephzibah,^[a]^(J)
    and your land Beulah^[b];
for the Lord will take delight^(K) in you,
    and your land will be married.^(L)
⁵As a young man marries a young woman,
    so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom^(M) rejoices over his bride,
    so will your God rejoice^(N) over you.

⁶I have posted watchmen^(O) on your walls, Jerusalem;
    they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
    give yourselves no rest,^(P)
⁷and give him no rest^(Q) till he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes her the praise^(R) of the earth.

⁸The Lord has sworn^(S) by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain^(T)
    as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
    for which you have toiled;
⁹but those who harvest it will eat^(U) it
    and praise the Lord,^(V)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”^(W)

¹⁰Pass through, pass through the gates!^(X)
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!^(Y)
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner^(Z) for the nations.

¹¹The Lord has made proclamation
    to the ends of the earth:^(AA)
“Say to Daughter Zion,^(AB)
    ‘See, your Savior comes!^(AC)
See, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense accompanies him.’”^(AD)
¹²They will be called^(AE) the Holy People,^(AF)
    the Redeemed^(AG) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
    the City No Longer Deserted.^(AH)

God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption

63 Who is this coming from Edom,^(AI)
from Bozrah,^(AJ) with his garments stained crimson?^(AK)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?^(AL)

“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”^(AM)

²Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?^(AN)

³“I have trodden the winepress^(AO) alone;
    from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled^(AP) them in my anger
    and trod them down in my wrath;^(AQ)
their blood spattered my garments,^(AR)
    and I stained all my clothing.
⁴It was for me the day of vengeance;^(AS)
    the year for me to redeem had come.
⁵I looked, but there was no one^(AT) to help,
    I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm^(AU) achieved salvation for me,
    and my own wrath sustained me.^(AV)
⁶I trampled^(AW) the nations in my anger;
    in my wrath I made them drunk^(AX)
    and poured their blood^(AY) on the ground.”

Praise and Prayer

⁷I will tell of the kindnesses^(AZ) of the Lord,
    the deeds for which he is to be praised,
    according to all the Lord has done for us—
yes, the many good things^(BA)
    he has done for Israel,
    according to his compassion^(BB) and many kindnesses.
⁸He said, “Surely they are my people,^(BC)
    children who will be true to me”;
    and so he became their Savior.^(BD)
⁹In all their distress he too was distressed,
    and the angel^(BE) of his presence^(BF) saved them.^[c]
In his love and mercy he redeemed^(BG) them;
    he lifted them up and carried^(BH) them
    all the days of old.^(BI)
¹⁰Yet they rebelled^(BJ)
    and grieved his Holy Spirit.^(BK)
So he turned and became their enemy^(BL)
    and he himself fought^(BM) against them.

¹¹Then his people recalled^[d] the days of old,
    the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,^(BN)
    with the shepherd of his flock?^(BO)
Where is he who set
    his Holy Spirit^(BP) among them,
¹²who sent his glorious arm^(BQ) of power
    to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters^(BR) before them,
    to gain for himself everlasting renown,^(BS)
¹³who led^(BT) them through the depths?^(BU)
Like a horse in open country,
    they did not stumble;^(BV)
¹⁴like cattle that go down to the plain,
    they were given rest^(BW) by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is how you guided your people
    to make for yourself a glorious name.

¹⁵Look down from heaven^(BX) and see,
    from your lofty throne,^(BY) holy and glorious.
Where are your zeal^(BZ) and your might?
    Your tenderness and compassion^(CA) are withheld^(CB) from us.
¹⁶But you are our Father,^(CC)
    though Abraham does not know us
    or Israel acknowledge^(CD) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
    our Redeemer^(CE) from of old is your name.
¹⁷Why, Lord, do you make us wander^(CF) from your ways
    and harden our hearts^(CG) so we do not revere^(CH) you?
Return^(CI) for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes that are your inheritance.^(CJ)
¹⁸For a little while^(CK) your people possessed your holy place,
    but now our enemies have trampled^(CL) down your sanctuary.^(CM)
¹⁹We are yours from of old;
    but you have not ruled over them,
    they have not been called^[e] by your name.^(CN)

64 ^[f]Oh, that you would rend the heavens^(CO) and come down,^(CP)
    that the mountains^(CQ) would tremble before you!
²As when fire sets twigs ablaze
    and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name^(CR) known to your enemies
    and cause the nations to quake^(CS) before you!
³For when you did awesome^(CT) things that we did not expect,
    you came down, and the mountains trembled^(CU) before you.
⁴Since ancient times no one has heard,
    no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,^(CV)
    who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.^(CW)
⁵You come to the help of those who gladly do right,^(CX)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.^(CY)
    How then can we be saved?
⁶All of us have become like one who is unclean,^(CZ)
    and all our righteous^(DA) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,^(DB)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.^(DC)
⁷No one^(DD) calls on your name^(DE)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden^(DF) your face from us
    and have given us over^(DG) to^[g] our sins.

⁸Yet you, Lord, are our Father.^(DH)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;^(DI)
    we are all the work of your hand.^(DJ)
⁹Do not be angry^(DK) beyond measure, Lord;
    do not remember our sins^(DL) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
    for we are all your people.^(DM)
¹⁰Your sacred cities^(DN) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.^(DO)
¹¹Our holy and glorious temple,^(DP) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured^(DQ) lies in ruins.
¹²After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?^(DR)
    Will you keep silent^(DS) and punish us beyond measure?

Footnotes

Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.
Isaiah 62:4 Beulah means married.
Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior ⁹in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them
Isaiah 63:11 Or But may he recall
Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called
Isaiah 64:1 In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.
Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of

Luke 17:20-37

New International Version

The Coming of the Kingdom of God^(A)

²⁰Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come,^(B) Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, ²¹nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’^(C) because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”^[a]

²²Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man,^(D) but you will not see it.^(E) ²³People will tell you, ‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them.^(F) ²⁴For the Son of Man in his day^[b] will be like the lightning,^(G) which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. ²⁵But first he must suffer many things^(H) and be rejected^(I) by this generation.^(J)

²⁶“Just as it was in the days of Noah,^(K) so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. ²⁷People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁸“It was the same in the days of Lot.^(L) People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. ²⁹But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

³⁰“It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.^(M) ³¹On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.^(N) ³²Remember Lot’s wife!^(O) ³³Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.^(P) ³⁴I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³⁵Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”^(Q) ^[36]^[c]