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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Isaiah 62

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Zion's Coming Salvation

1 (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.
3 You 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.
5 For 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.

6 On 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,
7 and give him no rest
    until he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes it (m)a praise in the earth.
8 The 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;
9 but (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]

10 Go 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.
11 Behold, 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.

 
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