For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

 2 And the Gentiles shall ^asee thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new ^bname, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.

 3 Thou shalt also be a ^acrown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

 4 Thou shalt no more be termed ^aForsaken; neither shall thy ^bland any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called ^cHephzi-bah, and thy land ^dBeulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

 5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God ^arejoice over thee.

 6 I have set ^awatchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

 7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a ^apraise in the earth.

 8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

 9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my ^aholiness.

 10 Go through, go through the gates; ^aprepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the ^bhighway; gather out the stones; lift up a ^cstandard for the people.

 11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the ^aworld, Say ye to the ^bdaughter of Zion, Behold, thy ^csalvation cometh; behold, his ^dreward is with him, and his work before him.

 12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.