Promise of the new Jerusalem
   2   until the nations see the triumph of your right
    and all kings see your glory.
  Then you shall be called by a new name
  which the Lord shall pronounce with his own lips;
   3   you will be a glorious crown in the Lord's hand,
    a kingly diadem ^note in the hand of your God.
4   No more shall men call you Forsaken,
no more shall your land be called Desolate,
but you shall be named Hephzi-bah ^note
    and your land Beulah; ^note
  for the Lord delights in you
    and to him your land is wedded.
     5   For, as a young man weds a maiden,
    so you shall wed him who rebuilds you,
  and your God shall rejoice over you
    as a bridegroom rejoices over the bride.
6   I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem,
who shall not keep silence day or night:
    ‘You who invoke the Lord's name,
7   take no rest, give him no rest
    until he makes Jerusalem
  a theme of endless praise on earth.’


8   The Lord has sworn with raised right hand and mighty arm:
Never again will I give your grain to feed your foes
  or let foreigners drink the new wine
    for which you have toiled;
9   but those who bring in the corn shall eat and praise the Lord,
and those who gather the grapes shall drink in my holy courts.


   10   Go out of the gates, go out,
  prepare a road for my people;
  build a highway, built it up,
    clear away the boulders;
  raise a signal to the peoples.
   11   This is the Lord's proclamation
    to earth's farthest bounds:
  Tell the daughter of Zion,
    Behold, your deliverance has come.
    His recompense comes with him;
    he carries his reward before him;
   12   and they shall be called a Holy People,

Promise of the new Jerusalem
    the Ransomed of the Lord,
a People long-sought, a City not forsaken.

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