Old/New Testament

62 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
    and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
    and her salvation like a burning lamp.
² The nations will see your righteousness,
    and all kings your glory.
You will be called by a new name,
    which Yahweh’s mouth will name.
³ You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh’s hand,
    and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
⁴ You will not be called Forsaken any more,
    nor will your land be called Desolate any more;
but you will be called Hephzibah,^[a]
    and your land Beulah;^[b]
for Yahweh delights in you,
    and your land will be married.
⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin,
    so your sons will marry you.
As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
    so your God will rejoice over you.

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem.
    They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
⁷     and give him no rest until he establishes,
    and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

⁸ Yahweh has sworn by his right hand,
    and by the arm of his strength,
“Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies,
    and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
⁹ but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh.
    Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”

¹⁰ Go through, go through the gates!
    Prepare the way of the people!
Build up, build up the highway!
    Gather out the stones!
    Lift up a banner for the peoples.
¹¹ Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth:
    “Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ‘Behold, your salvation comes!
Behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him!’”
¹² They will call them “The Holy People,
    Yahweh’s Redeemed”.
You will be called “Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken”.

63 Who is this who comes from Edom,
    with dyed garments from Bozrah?
Who is this who is glorious in his clothing,
    marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I who speak in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”
² Why is your clothing red,
    and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

³ “I have trodden the wine press alone.
    Of the peoples, no one was with me.
Yes, I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath.
Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments,
    and I have stained all my clothing.
⁴ For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and the year of my redeemed has come.
⁵ I looked, and there was no one to help;
    and I wondered that there was no one to uphold.
Therefore my own arm brought salvation to me.
    My own wrath upheld me.
⁶ I trod down the peoples in my anger
    and made them drunk in my wrath.
    I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”

⁷ I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh
    and the praises of Yahweh,
    according to all that Yahweh has given to us,
and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
    which he has given to them according to his mercies,
    and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
⁸ For he said, “Surely, they are my people,
    children who will not deal falsely;”
    so he became their Savior.
⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted,
    and the angel of his presence saved them.
In his love and in his pity he redeemed them.
    He bore them,
    and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰ But they rebelled
    and grieved his Holy Spirit.
Therefore he turned and became their enemy,
    and he himself fought against them.

¹¹ Then he remembered the days of old,
    Moses and his people, saying,
“Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock?
    Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
¹² Who caused his glorious arm to be at Moses’ right hand?
    Who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
¹³ Who led them through the depths,
    like a horse in the wilderness,
    so that they didn’t stumble?
¹⁴ As the livestock that go down into the valley,
    Yahweh’s Spirit caused them to rest.
    So you led your people to make yourself a glorious name.

¹⁵ Look down from heaven,
    and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory.
Where are your zeal and your mighty acts?
    The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
¹⁶ For you are our Father,
    though Abraham doesn’t know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father.
    Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
¹⁷ O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways,
    and harden our heart from your fear?
Return for your servants’ sake,
    the tribes of your inheritance.
¹⁸ Your holy people possessed it but a little while.
    Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
¹⁹ We have become like those over whom you never ruled,
    like those who were not called by your name.

64 Oh that you would tear the heavens,
    that you would come down,
    that the mountains might quake at your presence—
² as when fire kindles the brushwood,
    and the fire causes the water to boil.
Make your name known to your adversaries,
    that the nations may tremble at your presence!
³ When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for,
    you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
⁴ For from of old men have not heard,
    nor perceived by the ear,
    nor has the eye seen a God besides you,
    who works for him who waits for him.
⁵ You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
    We have been in sin for a long time.
    Shall we be saved?
⁶ For we have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf;
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷ There is no one who calls on your name,
    who stirs himself up to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

⁸ But now, Yahweh, you are our Father.
    We are the clay and you our potter.
    We all are the work of your hand.
⁹ Don’t be furious, Yahweh.
    Don’t remember iniquity forever.
Look and see, we beg you,
    we are all your people.
¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a wilderness.
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹ Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you
    is burned with fire.
    All our pleasant places are laid waste.
¹² Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh?
    Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?