Isaiah 62:1-8

New Living Translation

Isaiah’s Prayer for Jerusalem

62 Because I love Zion,
    I will not keep still.
Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
    I cannot remain silent.
I will not stop praying for her
    until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
    and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.
²The nations will see your righteousness.
    World leaders will be blinded by your glory.
And you will be given a new name
    by the Lord’s own mouth.
³The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see—
    a splendid crown in the hand of God.
⁴Never again will you be called “The Forsaken City”^[a]
    or “The Desolate Land.”^[b]
Your new name will be “The City of God’s Delight”^[c]
    and “The Bride of God,”^[d]
for the Lord delights in you
    and will claim you as his bride.
⁵Your children will commit themselves to you, O Jerusalem,
    just as a young man commits himself to his bride.
Then God will rejoice over you
    as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

⁶O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;
    they will pray day and night, continually.
    Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.
⁷Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,
    until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
⁸The Lord has sworn to Jerusalem by his own strength:
    “I will never again hand you over to your enemies.
Never again will foreign warriors come
    and take away your grain and new wine.