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Isaiah 60-64
New International Version
Isaiah 60-64
New International Version
The Glory of Zion
60 “Arise,(A) shine, for your light(B) has come,
and the glory(C) of the Lord rises upon you.
2 See, darkness(D) covers the earth
and thick darkness(E) is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
and his glory appears over you.
3 Nations(F) will come to your light,(G)
and kings(H) to the brightness of your dawn.
4 “Lift up your eyes and look about you:
All assemble(I) and come to you;
your sons come from afar,(J)
and your daughters(K) are carried on the hip.(L)
5 Then you will look and be radiant,(M)
your heart will throb and swell with joy;(N)
the wealth(O) on the seas will be brought to you,
to you the riches of the nations will come.
6 Herds of camels(P) will cover your land,
young camels of Midian(Q) and Ephah.(R)
And all from Sheba(S) will come,
bearing gold and incense(T)
and proclaiming the praise(U) of the Lord.
7 All Kedar’s(V) flocks will be gathered to you,
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you;
they will be accepted as offerings(W) on my altar,(X)
and I will adorn my glorious temple.(Y)
8 “Who are these(Z) that fly along like clouds,(AA)
like doves to their nests?
9 Surely the islands(AB) look to me;
in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,[a](AC)
bringing(AD) your children from afar,
with their silver and gold,(AE)
to the honor(AF) of the Lord your God,
the Holy One(AG) of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.(AH)
10 “Foreigners(AI) will rebuild your walls,
and their kings(AJ) will serve you.
Though in anger I struck you,
in favor(AK) I will show you compassion.(AL)
11 Your gates(AM) will always stand open,
they will never be shut, day or night,
so that people may bring you the wealth of the nations(AN)—
their kings(AO) led in triumphal procession.
12 For the nation or kingdom that will not serve(AP) you will perish;
it will be utterly ruined.(AQ)
13 “The glory of Lebanon(AR) will come to you,
the juniper, the fir and the cypress together,(AS)
to adorn my sanctuary;(AT)
and I will glorify the place for my feet.(AU)
14 The children of your oppressors(AV) will come bowing before you;
all who despise you will bow down(AW) at your feet
and will call you the City(AX) of the Lord,
Zion(AY) of the Holy One(AZ) of Israel.
15 “Although you have been forsaken(BA) and hated,
with no one traveling(BB) through,
I will make you the everlasting pride(BC)
and the joy(BD) of all generations.
16 You will drink the milk of nations
and be nursed(BE) at royal breasts.
Then you will know(BF) that I, the Lord, am your Savior,(BG)
your Redeemer,(BH) the Mighty One of Jacob.(BI)
17 Instead of bronze I will bring you gold,(BJ)
and silver in place of iron.
Instead of wood I will bring you bronze,
and iron in place of stones.
I will make peace(BK) your governor
and well-being your ruler.(BL)
18 No longer will violence(BM) be heard in your land,
nor ruin or destruction(BN) within your borders,
but you will call your walls Salvation(BO)
and your gates Praise.(BP)
19 The sun will no more be your light by day,
nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you,
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,(BQ)
and your God will be your glory.(BR)
20 Your sun(BS) will never set again,
and your moon will wane no more;
the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your days of sorrow(BT) will end.
21 Then all your people will be righteous(BU)
and they will possess(BV) the land forever.
They are the shoot I have planted,(BW)
the work of my hands,(BX)
for the display of my splendor.(BY)
22 The least of you will become a thousand,
the smallest a mighty nation.(BZ)
I am the Lord;
in its time I will do this swiftly.”(CA)
The Year of the Lord’s Favor
61 The Spirit(CB) of the Sovereign Lord(CC) is on me,
because the Lord has anointed(CD) me
to proclaim good news(CE) to the poor.(CF)
He has sent me to bind up(CG) the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom(CH) for the captives(CI)
and release from darkness for the prisoners,[b]
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor(CJ)
and the day of vengeance(CK) of our God,
to comfort(CL) all who mourn,(CM)
3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown(CN) of beauty
instead of ashes,(CO)
the oil(CP) of joy
instead of mourning,(CQ)
and a garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
a planting(CR) of the Lord
for the display of his splendor.(CS)
4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins(CT)
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
5 Strangers(CU) will shepherd your flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
6 And you will be called priests(CV) of the Lord,
you will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the wealth(CW) of nations,
and in their riches you will boast.
7 Instead of your shame(CX)
you will receive a double(CY) portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit(CZ) a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy(DA) will be yours.
8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;(DB)
I hate robbery and wrongdoing.
In my faithfulness I will reward my people
and make an everlasting covenant(DC) with them.
9 Their descendants(DD) will be known among the nations
and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge
that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”(DE)
10 I delight greatly in the Lord;
my soul rejoices(DF) in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,(DG)
as a bridegroom adorns his head(DH) like a priest,
and as a bride(DI) adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the soil makes the sprout come up
and a garden(DJ) causes seeds to grow,
so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness(DK)
and praise spring up before all nations.
Zion’s New Name
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,(DL)
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,
till her vindication(DM) shines out like the dawn,(DN)
her salvation(DO) like a blazing torch.
2 The nations(DP) will see your vindication,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name(DQ)
that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
3 You will be a crown(DR) of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 No longer will they call you Deserted,(DS)
or name your land Desolate.(DT)
But you will be called Hephzibah,[c](DU)
and your land Beulah[d];
for the Lord will take delight(DV) in you,
and your land will be married.(DW)
5 As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom(DX) rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice(DY) over you.
6 I have posted watchmen(DZ) on your walls, Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
give yourselves no rest,(EA)
7 and give him no rest(EB) till he establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise(EC) of the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn(ED) by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain(EE)
as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
for which you have toiled;
9 but those who harvest it will eat(EF) it
and praise the Lord,(EG)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”(EH)
10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(EI)
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(EJ)
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(EK) for the nations.
11 The Lord has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:(EL)
“Say to Daughter Zion,(EM)
‘See, your Savior comes!(EN)
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.’”(EO)
12 They will be called(EP) the Holy People,(EQ)
the Redeemed(ER) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.(ES)
God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
63 Who is this coming from Edom,(ET)
from Bozrah,(EU) with his garments stained crimson?(EV)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(EW)
“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”(EX)
2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?(EY)
3 “I have trodden the winepress(EZ) alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(FA) them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;(FB)
their blood spattered my garments,(FC)
and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance;(FD)
the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one(FE) to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm(FF) achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.(FG)
6 I trampled(FH) the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk(FI)
and poured their blood(FJ) on the ground.”
Praise and Prayer
7 I will tell of the kindnesses(FK) of the Lord,
the deeds for which he is to be praised,
according to all the Lord has done for us—
yes, the many good things(FL)
he has done for Israel,
according to his compassion(FM) and many kindnesses.
8 He said, “Surely they are my people,(FN)
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.(FO)
9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel(FP) of his presence(FQ) saved them.[e]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(FR) them;
he lifted them up and carried(FS) them
all the days of old.(FT)
10 Yet they rebelled(FU)
and grieved his Holy Spirit.(FV)
So he turned and became their enemy(FW)
and he himself fought(FX) against them.
11 Then his people recalled[f] the days of old,
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,(FY)
with the shepherd of his flock?(FZ)
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit(GA) among them,
12 who sent his glorious arm(GB) of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters(GC) before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,(GD)
13 who led(GE) them through the depths?(GF)
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;(GG)
14 like cattle that go down to the plain,
they were given rest(GH) by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is how you guided your people
to make for yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven(GI) and see,
from your lofty throne,(GJ) holy and glorious.
Where are your zeal(GK) and your might?
Your tenderness and compassion(GL) are withheld(GM) from us.
16 But you are our Father,(GN)
though Abraham does not know us
or Israel acknowledge(GO) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
our Redeemer(GP) from of old is your name.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(GQ) from your ways
and harden our hearts(GR) so we do not revere(GS) you?
Return(GT) for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your inheritance.(GU)
18 For a little while(GV) your people possessed your holy place,
but now our enemies have trampled(GW) down your sanctuary.(GX)
19 We are yours from of old;
but you have not ruled over them,
they have not been called[g] by your name.(GY)
64 [h]Oh, that you would rend the heavens(GZ) and come down,(HA)
that the mountains(HB) would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name(HC) known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake(HD) before you!
3 For when you did awesome(HE) things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled(HF) before you.
4 Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,(HG)
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.(HH)
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(HI)
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.(HJ)
How then can we be saved?
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,(HK)
and all our righteous(HL) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(HM)
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(HN)
7 No one(HO) calls on your name(HP)
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(HQ) your face from us
and have given us over(HR) to[i] our sins.
8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(HS)
We are the clay, you are the potter;(HT)
we are all the work of your hand.(HU)
9 Do not be angry(HV) beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins(HW) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.(HX)
10 Your sacred cities(HY) have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.(HZ)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,(IA) where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured(IB) lies in ruins.
12 After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?(IC)
Will you keep silent(ID) and punish us beyond measure?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 60:9 Or the trading ships
- Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind
- Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.
- Isaiah 62:4 Beulah means married.
- Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior 9 in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them
- Isaiah 63:11 Or But may he recall
- Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called
- Isaiah 64:1 In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.
- Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of
Isaiah 60-64
King James Version
Isaiah 60-64
King James Version
60 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
61 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62 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.
2 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.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 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:
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
63 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.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 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.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 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.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 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?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 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.
15 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?
16 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.
17 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.
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
64 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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