¹For the sake of Zion I will not hush, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still, until her righteousness goes forth like brightness, and her deliverance like a torch that burns.

²And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your weightiness; and you will be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh will designate.

³And you will be a crown of splendor in the hand of Yahweh, and a turban of royalty in the palm of your God.

⁴It will not be said of you again, 'Forsaken,' and of your land it will not be said again, 'Wasteland'; but you will be called 'My-Delight-Is-in-Her,' and your land 'Married'; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

⁵For as a young man marries a virgin, your sons will marry you; and as the exultation of a bridegroom over a bride, your God will rejoice over you.

⁶On your walls, Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all the day and all the night, continually, they will not hush. You who remind Yahweh, let there be no quiet for you.

⁷And do not give him quiet until he establishes, and until he sets Jerusalem as a praise in the land.

⁸Yahweh swore by his right hand and by the arm of his strength: I will never again give your grain as food to your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, which you toiled over.

⁹For those who gather it will eat it, and they will praise Yahweh; and those who collect it will drink it in my holy courts.

¹⁰Pass through, pass through the gates; clear the way for the people. Cast up, cast up the highway; free it of stones; raise high a banner over the peoples.

¹¹Look, Yahweh has made it heard to the end of the land: Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Look, your rescue is coming; look, his wages are with him, and his recompense before him.'

¹²They will call them 'The Holy People, the Redeemed of Yahweh'; and you will be called 'Sought Out, a City Not Forsaken.'