UST ISA Chapter 62

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62 Because I care deeply about you people who live in

the city of Jerusalem on Mount Zion,

I will keep praying for you

until God delivers you in a way that shows clearly

that he is the one who has saved you.

2 The people of other nations will recognize that God has delivered you,

and their kings will recognize that he has made your city glorious.

Yahweh himself will give the city a new name,

and that is what people will call it.

3 Yahweh your God will proudly show what you have become,

as a king might hold out his beautiful royal crown for people to admire.

4 People will no longer call you “Abandoned,”

and they will no longer call your land “Desolate.”

Instead, they will call you “The One Who Pleases Yahweh,”

and they will call your land “Married.”

That is because you will please Yahweh,

and your land will belong to him,

just as a wife belongs to her husband.

5 The people who are born in the land

will commit themselves to caring for it and defending it,

just as a young man commits himself to the young woman he marries.

Your God will be very happy about you,

just as a bridegroom is happy about his bride.

6 You people of Jerusalem, I have appointed people to pray for you.

They will pray for you continually.

You who are to remind Yahweh about what he has promised to do,

keep praying

7 and keep reminding Yahweh

until he restores Jerusalem

and makes people throughout the earth

admire the city.

8 Yahweh has made a solemn promise to the people of Jerusalem,

and he has guaranteed it by his own great power:

“I will never again let your enemies take away your grain and eat it,

and foreigners will never again drink up the new wine

that you have worked hard to produce.

9 Instead, you who harvest the grain will eat it yourselves,

and you will thank me, Yahweh, as you eat it.

You who gather the grapes will drink the wine yourselves

in the courtyards of my temple.”

10 Go out through the city gates right away!

Prepare a road on which the people can return!

Build up the highway well,

and clear away the stones!

Raise a signal flag so that the people of other nations

will know the way to Jerusalem!

11 Listen! Yahweh has proclaimed this message to people throughout the earth:

“Tell the people of Jerusalem,

‘Pay attention! The one who saves you is coming!

He is bringing with him the people he has taken from your enemies.’ ”

12 People will call them “the holy people,”

“the ones whom Yahweh has rescued.”

People will call Jerusalem “The city that God cares for,”

“the city that God will always protect.”