Zion Is YHWH’s Delight
Isaiah 62 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp. The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which YHWH’s mouth will name. You will also be a crown of beauty in YHWH’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand. You will not be called “Forsaken” any more, nor will your land be called “Desolate” any more; but you will be called “My Delight Is In Her,”+62:4 Hephzibah. and your land “Married”;+62:4 Beulah for YHWH delights in you, and your land will be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.Jerusalem, I have set watchmen on your walls. They will never be silent day nor night. There is no rest for y’all who remind YHWH. Y’all must give him no rest until ʜᴇ establishes, and makes Jerusalem the praise of the earth.
YHWH has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored, but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise YHWH. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
Y’all go out, go out the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Y’all build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples. YHWH has proclaimed to the end of the earth: “Y’all say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your salvation comes! Look, ʜɪꜱ reward is with ʜɪᴍ, and ʜɪꜱ recompense before ʜɪᴍ!’” They will call them “The Holy People, YHWH’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.