children of those who tormented you;
Prostrate at the soles of your feet
Shall be all those who reviled you;
And you shall be called
“City of the LORD,
Zion of the Holy One of Israel.”
15Whereas you have been forsaken,
Rejected, with none passing through,
I will make you a pride everlasting,
A joy for age after age.
16You shall suck the milk of the nations,
Suckle at royal breasts.e
And you shall know
That I the LORD am your Savior,
I, The Mighty One of Jacob, am your Redeemer.
17Instead of copper I will bring gold,
Instead of iron I will bring silver;
Instead of wood, copper;
And instead of stone, iron.
And I will appoint Well-being as your government,
Prosperity as your officials.
18The cry “Violence!”
Shall no more be heard in your land,
Nor “Wrack and ruin!”
Within your borders.
And you shall name your walls “Victory”
And your gates “Renown.”
19No longer shall you need the sun
For light by day,
Nor the shining of the moon
For radiance [by nightf];
For the LORD shall be your light everlasting,
Your God shall be your glory.
20Your sun shall set no more,
Your moon no more withdraw;
For the LORD shall be a light to you forever,
And your days of mourning shall be ended.
21And your people, all of them righteous,
Shall possess the land for all time;
They are the shoot that I planted,
My handiwork in which I glory.
22The smallest shall become a clan;
The least, a mighty nation.
I the LORD will speed it in due time.
61 The spirit of the LORD GOD is upon me,
Because the LORD has anointed me;
He has sent me as a herald of joy to the humble,
To bind up the wounded of heart,
To proclaim release to the captives,
Liberation to the imprisoned;
2To proclaim a year of the LORD’s favor
And a day of vindication by our God;
To comfort all who mourn—
3a-To provide for-a the mourners in Zion—
To give them a turban instead of ashes,
The festive ointment instead of mourning,
A garment of splendor instead of a drooping spirit.
They shall be called terebinths of victory,
Planted by the LORD for His glory.
4And they shall build the ancient ruins,
Raise up the desolations of old,
And renew the ruined cities,
The desolations of many ages.
5Strangers shall stand and pasture your flocks,
Aliens shall be your plowmen and vine-trimmers;
6While you shall be called “Priests of the LORD,”
And termed “Servants of our God.”
You shall enjoy the wealth of nations
And revela in their riches.
7Because your shame was double—
b-Men cried, “Disgrace is their portion”-b—
Assuredly,
They shall have a double share in their land,
Joy shall be theirs for all time.
8For I the LORD love justice,
I hate c-robbery with a burnt offering.-c
I will pay them their wages faithfully,
And make a covenant with them for all time.
9Their offspring shall be known among the nations,
Their descendants in the midst of the peoples.
All who see them shall recognize
That they are a stock the LORD has blessed.
10I greatly rejoice in the LORD,
My whole being exults in my God.
For He has clothed me with garments of triumph,
Wrapped me in a robe of victory,
Like a bridegroom adorned with a turban,
Like a bride bedecked with her finery.
11For as the earth brings forth her growth
And a garden makes the seed shoot up,
So the Lord GOD will make
Victory and renown shoot up
In the presence of all the nations.
62 For the sake of Zion I will not be silent,
For the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still,
Till her victory emerge resplendent
And her triumph like a flaming torch.
2Nations shall see your victory,
And every king your majesty;
And you shall be called by a new name
Which the LORD Himself shall bestow.
3You shall be a glorious crown
In the hand of the LORD,
And a royal diadem
In the palm of your God.
4Nevermore shall you be called “Forsaken,”
Nor shall your land be called “Desolate”;
But you shall be called “I delight in her,”
And your land “Espoused.”
For the LORD takes delight in you,
And your land shall be espoused.
5As a youth espouses a maiden,
a-Your sons-a shall espouse you;
And as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
So will your God rejoice over you.
6Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set watchmen,
Who shall never be silent
By day or by night.
O you, the LORD’s remembrancers,b
Take no rest
7And give no rest to Him,
Until He establish Jerusalem
And make her renowned on earth.
8The LORD has sworn by His right hand,
By His mighty arm:
Nevermore will I give your new grain
To your enemies for food,
Nor shall foreigners drink the new wine
For which you have labored.
9But those who harvest it shall eat it
And give praise to the LORD;
And those who gather it shall drink it
In My sacred courts.
10Pass through, pass through the gates!
Clear the road for the people;
Build up, build up the highway,
Remove the rocks!
Raise an ensign over the peoples!
11See, the LORD has proclaimed
To the end of the earth:
Announce to Fair Zion,
Your Deliverer is coming!
See, his reward is with Him,
His recompense before Him.c
12And they shall be called, “The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the LORD,”
And you shall be called, “Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.”
63 Who is this coming from Edom,
In crimsoned garments from Bozrah—
Who is this, majestic in attire,
a-Pressing forward-a in His great might?
“It is I, who contend victoriously,
Powerful to b-give triumph.”-b
2Why is your clothing so red,
Your garments like his who treads grapes?c
3“I trod out a vintage alone;
d-Of the peoples-d no man was with Me.
I trod them down in My anger,
Trampled them in My rage;
Their life-bloode bespattered My garments,
And all My clothing was stained.
4For I had planned a day of vengeance,
And My year of redemption arrived.
5Then I looked, but there was none to help;
I stared, but there was none to aid—
So My own arm wrought the triumph,
And f-My own rage-f was My aid.
6I trampled peoples in My anger,
g-I made them drunk with-g My rage,
And I hurled their glory to the ground.”
7I will recount the kind acts of the LORD,
The praises of the LORD—
For all that the LORD has wrought for us,
The vast bounty to the House of Israel
That He bestowed upon them
According to His mercy and His great kindness.
8He thought: Surely they are My people,
Children who will not play false.
h-So He was their Deliverer.
9In all their troubles He was troubled,
And the angel of His Presence delivered them.-h
In His love and pity
He Himself redeemed them,
Raised them, and exalted them
All the days of old.
10But they rebelled, and grieved
His holy spirit;
Then He became their enemy,
And Himself made war against them.
11Then theyi remembered the ancient days,
j-Him, who pulled His people-j out [of the water]:
“Where is He who brought them up from the Sea
Along with the shepherdk of His flock?
Where is He who put
In their midst His holy spirit,
12Who made His glorious arm
March at the right hand of Moses,
Who divided the waters before them
To make Himself a name for all time,
13Who led them through the deeps
So that they did not stumble—
As a horse in a desert,
14Like a beast descending to the plain?”
’Twas the spirit of the LORD l-gave them rest;-l
Thus did You shepherd Your people
To win for Yourself a glorious name.
15Look down from heaven and see,
From Your holy and glorious height!
Where is Your zeal, Your power?
Your yearning and Your love
Are being withheld from us!m
16Surely You are our Father:
Though Abraham regard us not,
And Israel recognize us not,
You, O LORD, are our Father;
From of old, Your name is “Our Redeemer.”
17Why, LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways,
And turn our hearts away from revering You?
Relent for the sake of Your servants,
The tribes that are Your very own!
18Our foes have trampled Your Sanctuary,
Which Your holy people n-possessed but a little while.-n
19We have become as a people You never ruled,
To which Your name was never attached.
If You would but tear open the heavens and come down,
64 So that mountains would quake before You—
aAs when fire kindles brushwood,
And fire makes water boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries
So that nations will tremble at Your Presence,
2When You did wonders we dared not hope for,
You came down
And mountains quaked before You.
3Such things had never been heard or noted.
No eye has seen [them], O God, but You,
Who act for those who trust in You.b
4Yet you have struck him who would gladly do justice,
And remember You in Your ways.
It is because You are angry that we have sinned;
c-We have been steeped in them from of old,
And can we be saved?-c
5We have all become like an unclean thing,
And all our virtues like a filthy rag.
We are all withering like leaves,
And our iniquities, like a wind, carry us off.
6Yet no one invokes Your name,
Rouses himself to cling to You.
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And d-made us melt because of-d our iniquities.
7But now, O LORD, You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You are the Potter,
We are all the work of Your hands.
8Be not implacably angry, O LORD,
Do not remember iniquity forever.
Oh, look down to Your people, to us all!
9Your holy cities have become a desert:
Zion has become a desert,
Jerusalem a desolation.
10Our holy Temple, our pride,
Where our fathers praised You,
Has been consumed by fire:
And all that was dear to us is ruined.
11At such things will You restrain Yourself, O LORD,
Will You stand idly by and let us suffer so heavily?
65 a-I responded to-a those who did not ask,
I was at hand to those who did not seek Me;
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
To a nation that did not invoke My name.
2I constantly spread out My hands
To a disloyal people,
Who walk the way that is not good,
Following their own designs;
3The people who provoke My anger,
Who continually, to My very face,
Sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on tiles;
4Who sit inside tombs
And pass the night in secret places;
Who eat the flesh of swine,
With broth of unclean things in their bowls;
5Who say, “Keep your distance! Don’t come closer!
b- For I would render you consecrated.”-b
Such things make My anger rage,
Like fire blazing all day long.
6See, this is recorded before Me;
I will not stand idly by, but will repay,
Deliver c- theird sins-c into their bosom,
7And the sins of their fathers as well
—said the