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1 For Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking]’s sake will I not hold my peace,
and for Jerusalem [City of peace]’s sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness shines out like the dawn,
and her yishu'ah ·salvation· like a blazing torch.
2 The nations will see your righteousness,
and all kings your kavod ·weighty glory·,
and you will be called by a new name,
which Adonai’s mouth will name.
3 You will also be a crown of beauty in Adonai’s hand,
and a royal diadem ·crown· 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,
and your land Beulah;
for Adonai 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 [City of peace].
They will never be silent day nor night.
You who call on Adonai, take no rest,
7 and give him no rest, until he establishes,
and until he makes Jerusalem [City of peace] a tehilah ·praise song· in the earth.
8 Adonai 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 Adonai;
and 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, Adonai has sh'ma ·hear obey, proclaimed· unto the end of the earth,
“Say to the daughter of Zion [Mountain ridge, Marking],
‘Behold, your yesha' ·salvation· comes.
Behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.’ ”
12 They will call them The holy people,
Adonai’s redeemed.
You will be called Sought out,
A city not forsaken.