Isaiah 62-64

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Zion's Coming Salvation

62 ^(A)For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
    and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
^(B)until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
    and her salvation as a burning torch.
²^(C)The nations shall see your righteousness,
    and all the kings your glory,
^(D)and you shall be called by a new name
    that the mouth of the Lord will give.
³You shall be ^(E)a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
    and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⁴^(F)You shall no more be termed ^(G)Forsaken,^[a]
    and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,^[b]
^(H)but you shall be called ^(I)My Delight Is in Her,^[c]
    and your land Married;^[d]
for the Lord delights in you,
    and your land shall be married.
⁵For as a young man marries a young woman,
    so ^(J)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
    so ^(K)shall your God rejoice over you.

⁶On your walls, O Jerusalem,
    I have set ^(L)watchmen;
all the day and all the night
    they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
    take no rest,
⁷and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it ^(M)a praise in the earth.
⁸The Lord has sworn ^(N)by his right hand
    and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give ^(O)your grain
    to be food for your enemies,
^(P)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
    for which you have labored;
⁹but ^(Q)those who garner it shall eat it
    and praise the Lord,
and ^(R)those who gather it shall drink it
    in the courts of my sanctuary.”^[e]

¹⁰Go through, go through the gates;
    ^(S)prepare the way for the people;
^(T)build up, build up the highway;
    clear it of stones;
    ^(U)lift up a signal over the peoples.
¹¹Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
    to the end of the earth:
^(V)Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ^(W)“Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him.”
¹²^(X)And they shall be called The Holy People,
    The Redeemed of the Lord;
^(Y)and you shall be called Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken.

The Lord's Day of Vengeance

63 Who is this who comes from ^(Z)Edom,
    in crimsoned garments from ^(AA)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
    ^(AB)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
    mighty to save.”

²Why is your ^(AC)apparel red,
and your garments like his ^(AD)who treads in the winepress?

³^(AE)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    ^(AF)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood^[f] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
⁴^(AG)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption^[g] had come.
⁵I looked, but ^(AH)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
⁶I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    ^(AI)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

The Lord's Mercy Remembered

⁷I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
    the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
    ^(AJ)and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁸For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will not deal falsely.”
    And he became their Savior.
⁹^(AK)In all their affliction he was afflicted,^[h]
    and the angel of his presence saved them;
^(AL)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
    ^(AM)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰^(AN)But they rebelled
    ^(AO)and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
    and himself fought against them.
¹¹Then he remembered ^(AP)the days of old,
    of Moses and his people.^[i]
^(AQ)Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
    with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
    his Holy Spirit,
¹²who caused his glorious arm
    to go at the right hand of Moses,
^(AR)who divided the waters before them
    ^(AS)to make for himself an everlasting name,
¹³    who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
    they did not stumble.
¹⁴Like livestock that go down into the valley,
    ^(AT)the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
    ^(AU)to make for yourself a glorious name.

Prayer for Mercy

¹⁵^(AV)Look down from heaven and see,
    ^(AW)from your holy and beautiful^[j] habitation.
Where are ^(AX)your zeal and your might?
    The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
    are held back from me.
¹⁶For ^(AY)you are our Father,
    though Abraham does not know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
    ^(AZ)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
¹⁷O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
    and ^(BA)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
^(BB)Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes of your heritage.
¹⁸^(BC)Your holy people held possession for a little while;^[k]
    ^(BD)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
¹⁹^(BE)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
    like those who are not called by your name.

64 ^(BF)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    ^(BG)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
²^[l] as when fire kindles brushwood
    and the fire causes water to boil—
^(BH)to make your name known to your adversaries,
    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
³^(BI)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
    you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
⁴^(BJ)From of old no one has heard
    or perceived by the ear,
^(BK)no eye has seen a God besides you,
    who acts for those who wait for him.
⁵You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?^[m]
⁶^(BL)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
^(BM)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷^(BN)There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in^[n] the hand of our iniquities.

⁸^(BO)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    ^(BP)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    ^(BQ)we are all the work of your hand.
⁹^(BR)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
    ^(BS)and remember not iniquity forever.
    Behold, please look, we are all your people.
¹⁰^(BT)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹^(BU)Our holy and beautiful^[o] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
¹²^(BV)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
    Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?