Zion’s Glory and New Name

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For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,
Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,
And her salvation like a torch that is burning. 2
The nations will see your righteousness,
And all kings your glory;
And you will be called by a new name
Which the mouth of the LORD will designate. 3
You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD,
And a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4
It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,
Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate;
But you will be called, “My delight is in her,
And your land, “Married;
For the LORD delights in you,
And {to Him} your land will be married. 5
For {as} a young man marries a virgin,
{So} your sons will marry you;
And {as} the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
{So} your God will rejoice over you.

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On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the LORD, take no rest for yourselves; 7
And give Him no rest until He establishes
And makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8
The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm,
“I will never again give your grain {as} food for your enemies;
Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored. 9
But those who garner it will eat it and praise the LORD;
And those who gather it will drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.

 10
Go through, go through the gates,
Clear the way for the people;
Build up, build up the highway,
Remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples. 11
Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
Say to the daughter of Zion, “Lo, your salvation comes;
Behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him. 12
And they will call them, “The holy people,
The redeemed of the LORD;
And you will be called, “Sought out, a city not forsaken.

Exaltation of the Afflicted

1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
Because the LORD has anointed me
To bring good news to the afflicted;
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to captives
And freedom to prisoners; 2
To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn, 3
To grant those who mourn {in} Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

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Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,
They will raise up the former devastations;
And they will repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations. 5
Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks,
And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers. 6
But you will be called the priests of the LORD;
You will be spoken of {as} ministers of our God.
You will eat the wealth of nations,
And in their riches you will boast. 7
Instead of your shame {you will have a} double {portion,}
And {instead of} humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion.
Therefore they will possess a double {portion} in their land,
Everlasting joy will be theirs. 8
For I, the LORD, love justice,
I hate robbery in the burnt offering;
And I will faithfully give them their recompense
And make an everlasting covenant with them. 9
Then their offspring will be known among the nations,
And their descendants in the midst of the peoples.
All who see them will recognize them
Because they are the offspring {whom} the LORD has blessed.

 10
I will rejoice greatly in the LORD,
My soul will exult in my God;
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,
He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11
For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,
So the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise
To spring up before all the nations.

A Glorified Zion

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“Arise, shine; for your light has come,
And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2
“For behold, darkness will cover the earth
And deep darkness the peoples;
But the LORD will rise upon you
And His glory will appear upon you. 3
“Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.

 4
“Lift up your eyes round about and see;
They all gather together, they come to you.
Your sons will come from afar,
And your daughters will be carried in the arms. 5
“Then you will see and be radiant,
And your heart will thrill and rejoice;
Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you. 6
“A multitude of camels will cover you,
The young camels of Midian and Ephah;
All those from Sheba will come;
They will bring gold and frankincense,
And will bear good news of the praises of the LORD. 7
“All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you,
The rams of Nebaioth will minister to you;
They will go up with acceptance on My altar,
And I shall glorify My glorious house. 8
“Who are these who fly like a cloud
And like the doves to their lattices? 9
“Surely the coastlands will wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish {will come} first,
To bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
For the name of the LORD your God,
And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

 10
“Foreigners will build up your walls,
And their kings will minister to you;
For in My wrath I struck you,
And in My favor I have had compassion on you. 11
“Your gates will be open continually;
They will not be closed day or night,
So that {men} may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
With their kings led in procession. 12
“For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,
And the nations will be utterly ruined. 13
“The glory of Lebanon will come to you,
The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together,
To beautify the place of My sanctuary;
And I shall make the place of My feet glorious. 14
“The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,
And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the city of the LORD,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

 15
“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated
With no one passing through,
I will make you an everlasting pride,
A joy from generation to generation. 16
“You will also suck the milk of nations
And suck the breast of kings;
Then you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. 17
“Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
And instead of iron I will bring silver,
And instead of wood, bronze,
And instead of stones, iron.
And I will make peace your administrators
And righteousness your overseers. 18
“Violence will not be heard again in your land,
Nor devastation or destruction within your borders;
But you will call your walls salvation, and your gates praise. 19
“No longer will you have the sun for light by day,
Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;
But you will have the LORD for an everlasting light,
And your God for your glory. 20
“Your sun will no longer set,
Nor will your moon wane;
For you will have the LORD for an everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning will be over. 21
“Then all your people {will be} righteous;
They will possess the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified. 22
“The smallest one will become a clan,
And the least one a mighty nation.
I, the LORD, will hasten it in its time.

Observances of Fasts

1
“Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins. 2
“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me {for} just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God. 3
`Why have we fasted and You do not see?
{Why} have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’
Behold, on the day of your fast you find {your} desire,
And drive hard all your workers. 4
“Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like {you do} today to make your voice heard on high. 5
“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD? 6
“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke? 7
“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry
And bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the naked, to cover him;
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 8
“Then your light will break out like the dawn,
And your recovery will speedily spring forth;
And your righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. 9
“Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
You will cry, and He will say, `Here I am.’
If you remove the yoke from your midst,
The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, 10
And if you give yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
Then your light will rise in darkness
And your gloom {will become} like midday. 11
“And the LORD will continually guide you,
And satisfy your desire in scorched places,
And give strength to your bones;
And you will be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. 12
“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up the age-old foundations;
And you will be called the repairer of the breach,
The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

Keeping the Sabbath

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“If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot
From doing your {own} pleasure on My holy day,
And call the sabbath a delight, the holy {day} of the LORD honorable,
And honor it, desisting from your {own} ways,
From seeking your {own} pleasure
And speaking {your own} word, 14
Then you will take delight in the LORD,
And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you {with} the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Observances of Fasts

1
“Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their transgression
And to the house of Jacob their sins. 2
“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me {for} just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God. 3
`Why have we fasted and You do not see?
{Why} have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’
Behold, on the day of your fast you find {your} desire,
And drive hard all your workers. 4
“Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like {you do} today to make your voice heard on high. 5
“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD? 6
“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke? 7
“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry
And bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the naked, to cover him;
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh? 8
“Then your light will break out like the dawn,
And your recovery will speedily spring forth;
And your righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. 9
“Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
You will cry, and He will say, `Here I am.’
If you remove the yoke from your midst,
The pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, 10
And if you give yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the desire of the afflicted,
Then your light will rise in darkness
And your gloom {will become} like midday. 11
“And the LORD will continually guide you,
And satisfy your desire in scorched places,
And give strength to your bones;
And you will be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. 12
“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up the age-old foundations;
And you will be called the repairer of the breach,
The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

Keeping the Sabbath

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“If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot
From doing your {own} pleasure on My holy day,
And call the sabbath a delight, the holy {day} of the LORD honorable,
And honor it, desisting from your {own} ways,
From seeking your {own} pleasure
And speaking {your own} word, 14
Then you will take delight in the LORD,
And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you {with} the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Evil Leaders Rebuked

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The righteous man perishes, and no man takes it to heart;
And devout men are taken away, while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from evil, 2
He enters into peace;
They rest in their beds,
{Each one} who walked in his upright way. 3
“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute. 4
“Against whom do you jest?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion,
Offspring of deceit, 5
{Who} inflame yourselves among the oaks,
Under every luxuriant tree,
Who slaughter the children in the ravines,
Under the clefts of the crags? 6
“Among the smooth {stones} of the ravine
Is your portion, they are your lot;
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,
You have made a grain offering.
Shall I relent concerning these things? 7
“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice. 8
“Behind the door and the doorpost
You have set up your sign;
Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself,
And have gone up and made your bed wide.
And you have made an agreement for yourself with them,
You have loved their bed,
You have looked on {their} manhood. 9
“You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your envoys a great distance
And made {them} go down to Sheol. 10
“You were tired out by the length of your road,
{Yet} you did not say, `It is hopeless.’
You found renewed strength,
Therefore you did not faint.

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“Of whom were you worried and fearful
When you lied, and did not remember Me
Nor give {Me} a thought?
Was I not silent even for a long time
So you do not fear Me? 12
“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you. 13
“When you cry out, let your collection {of idols} deliver you.
But the wind will carry all of them up,
{And} a breath will take {them away.}
But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land
And will possess My holy mountain.

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And it will be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
Remove {every} obstacle out of the way of My people. 15
For thus says the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy,
“I dwell {on} a high and holy place,
And {also} with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite. 16
“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the breath {of those whom} I have made. 17
“Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;
I hid {My face} and was angry,
And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart. 18
“I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;
I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners, 19
Creating the praise of the lips.
Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near,
Says the LORD, “and I will heal him. 20
But the wicked are like the tossing sea,
For it cannot be quiet,
And its waters toss up refuse and mud. 21
“There is no peace, says my God, “for the wicked.

Rewards for Obedience to God

1
Thus says the LORD,
“Preserve justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come
And My righteousness to be revealed. 2
“How blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who takes hold of it;
Who keeps from profaning the sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil. 3
Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say,
“The LORD will surely separate me from His people.
Nor let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.

 4 For thus says the LORD,
“To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant, 5
To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial,
And a name better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

 6
“Also the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of the LORD,
To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath
And holds fast My covenant; 7
Even those I will bring to My holy mountain
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;
For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples. 8
The Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“Yet {others} I will gather to them, to those {already} gathered.

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All you beasts of the field,
All you beasts in the forest,
Come to eat. 10
His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber; 11
And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied.
And they are shepherds who have no understanding;
They have all turned to their own way,
Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one. 12
“Come, {they say,} “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink;
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.

The Free Offer of Mercy

1
“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters;
And you who have no money come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without cost. 2
“Why do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And delight yourself in abundance. 3
“Incline your ear and come to Me.
Listen, that you may live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
{According to} the faithful mercies shown to David. 4
“Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
A leader and commander for the peoples. 5
“Behold, you will call a nation you do not know,
And a nation which knows you not will run to you,
Because of the LORD your God, even the Holy One of Israel;
For He has glorified you.

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Seek the LORD while He may be found;
Call upon Him while He is near. 7
Let the wicked forsake his way
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the LORD,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon. 8
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways, declares the LORD. 9
“For {as} the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts. 10
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding {in the matter} for which I sent it. 12
“For you will go out with joy
And be led forth with peace;
The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,
And all the trees of the field will clap {their} hands. 13
“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up,
And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up,
And it will be a memorial to the LORD,
For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.

The Fertility of Zion

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“Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no {child;}
Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed;
For the sons of the desolate one {will be} more numerous
Than the sons of the married woman, says the LORD. 2
“Enlarge the place of your tent;
Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not;
Lengthen your cords
And strengthen your pegs. 3
“For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left.
And your descendants will possess nations
And will resettle the desolate cities.

 4
“Fear not, for you will not be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth,
And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. 5
“For your husband is your Maker,
Whose name is the LORD of hosts;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel,
Who is called the God of all the earth. 6
“For the LORD has called you,
Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Even like a wife of {one’s} youth when she is rejected,
Says your God. 7
“For a brief moment I forsook you,
But with great compassion I will gather you. 8
“In an outburst of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,
Says the LORD your Redeemer.

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“For this is like the days of Noah to Me,
When I swore that the waters of Noah
Would not flood the earth again;
So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
Nor will I rebuke you. 10
“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,
Says the LORD who has compassion on you.

 11
“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, {and} not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will lay in sapphires. 12
“Moreover, I will make your battlements of rubies,
And your gates of crystal,
And your entire wall of precious stones. 13
“All your sons will be taught of the LORD;
And the well-being of your sons will be great. 14
“In righteousness you will be established;
You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear;
And from terror, for it will not come near you. 15
“If anyone fiercely assails {you} it will not be from Me.
Whoever assails you will fall because of you. 16
“Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows the fire of coals
And brings out a weapon for its work;
And I have created the destroyer to ruin. 17
“No weapon that is formed against you will prosper;
And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their vindication is from Me, declares the LORD.

The Suffering Servant

1
Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no {stately} form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. 3
He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

 4
Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted. 5
But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being {fell} upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed. 6
All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.

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He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth. 8
By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke {was due?} 9
His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.

 10
But the LORD was pleased
To crush Him, putting {Him} to grief;
If He would render Himself {as} a guilt offering,
He will see {His} offspring,
He will prolong {His} days,
And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. 11
As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see {it and} be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities. 12
Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.