Isaiah:62-63

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* 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 . * And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness , and all kings thy glory : and thou shalt be called by a new name , which the mouth of the LORD shall name . * Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD , and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God . * Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken ; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate : but thou shalt be called Hephzibah , and thy land Beulah : for the LORD delighteth in thee , and thy land shall be married . * 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 rejoice over thee . * I have set watchmen upon thy walls , O Jerusalem , which shall never hold their peace day nor night : ye that make mention of the LORD , keep not silence , * And give him no rest , till he establish , and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth . * 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 : * 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 holiness . * Go through , go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up , cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people . * Behold , the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world , Say ye to the daughter of Zion , Behold , thy salvation cometh ; behold , his reward is with him , and his work before him . * And they shall call them , The holy people , The redeemed of the LORD : and thou shalt be called , Sought out , A city not forsaken . * Who is this that cometh from Edom , with dyed garments from Bozrah ? this that is glorious in his apparel , travelling in the greatness of his strength ? I that speak in righteousness , mighty to save . * Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel , and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat ? * I have trodden the winepress alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger , and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments , and I will stain all my raiment . * For the day of vengeance is in mine heart , and the year of my redeemed is come . * And I looked , and there was none to help ; and I wondered that there was none to uphold : therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me ; and my fury , it upheld me . * And I will tread down the people in mine anger , and make them drunk in my fury , and I will bring down their strength to the earth . * I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD , and the praises of the LORD , according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us , and the great goodness toward the house of Israel , which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies , and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses . * For he said , Surely they are my people , children that will not lie : so he was their Saviour . * In all their affliction he was afflicted , and the angel of his presence saved them : in his love and in his pity he redeemed them ; and he bare them , and carried them all the days of old . * But they rebelled , and vexed his holy Spirit : therefore he was turned to be their enemy , and he fought against them . * Then he remembered the days of old , Moses , and his people , saying , Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock ? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him ? * That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm , dividing the water before them , to make himself an everlasting name ? * That led them through the deep , as an horse in the wilderness , that they should not stumble ? * As a beast goeth down into the valley , the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest : so didst thou lead thy people , to make thyself a glorious name . * Look down from heaven , and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory : where is thy zeal and thy strength , the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me ? are they restrained ? * Doubtless thou art our father , though Abraham be ignorant of us , and Israel acknowledge us not : thou , O LORD , art our father , our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting . * O LORD , why hast thou made us to err from thy ways , and hardened our heart from thy fear ? Return for thy servants ' sake , the tribes of thine inheritance . * The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while : our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary . * We are thine : thou never barest rule over them ; they were not called by thy name . * Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens , that thou wouldest come down , that the mountains might flow down at thy presence ,

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