61  ^uThe Spirit of the Lord God is ^vupon me,

because the Lord has ^wanointed me

to bring ^xgood news to the poor;¹

he has sent me to ^ybind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives,

and ^zthe opening of the prison to those who are bound;²

2  to proclaim ^athe year of the Lord’s favor,

and the ^bday of vengeance of our God;

to ^ccomfort all who mourn;

3  to grant to those who mourn in Zion—

to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,

the ^doil of gladness instead of mourning,

the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;

that they may be called oaks of righteousness,

the ^eplanting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.³

4  They shall build up the ^fancient ruins;

they shall raise up the former devastations;

they shall repair the ^gruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

5  ^hStrangers shall stand and tend your flocks;

foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;

6  but ⁱyou shall be called the priests of the Lord;

they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;

you shall eat the ^jwealth of the nations,

and in their glory you shall boast.

7  Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;

instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;

therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;

they shall have ^keverlasting joy.

8  For I the Lord love justice;

I hate robbery and wrong;⁴

I will faithfully give them their recompense,

and I will make an everlasting ^lcovenant with them.

9  Their offspring shall be known among the nations,

and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;

all who see them shall acknowledge them,

that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

10  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

my soul shall exult in my God,

for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

he has covered me with the ^mrobe of righteousness,

as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11  For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,

and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,

so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise

to sprout up before all the nations.

62  For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,

until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,

and her salvation as a burning torch.

2  The ⁿnations shall see your righteousness,

and all the kings your glory,

and you shall be called by a new name

that the mouth of the Lord will give.

3  You shall be a ^ocrown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,

and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

4  You shall no more be termed ^pForsaken,¹

and your land shall no more be termed ^qDesolate,²

but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her,³

and your land Married;⁴

for the Lord delights in you,

and your land shall be married.

5  For as a young man marries a young woman,

so shall your sons marry you,

and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,

so shall your God ^rrejoice over you.

6  On your walls, O Jerusalem,

I have set ^swatchmen;

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 ^tmakes it a praise in the earth.

8  The Lord has sworn by his right hand

and by his mighty arm:

“I will not again give your grain

^uto be food for your enemies,

and foreigners shall not drink your wine

for which you have labored;

9  but those who garner it shall eat it

and praise the Lord,

and those who gather it shall drink it

^vin the courts of my sanctuary.”⁵

10  Go through, go through the gates;

^wprepare the way for the people;

build up, build up the ^xhighway;

clear it of stones;

^ylift up a signal over the peoples.

11  Behold, the Lord has proclaimed

to the end of the earth:

^zSay to the daughter of Zion,

“Behold, your salvation ^acomes;

behold, ^bhis reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.”

12  And they shall be called The Holy People,

The ^cRedeemed of the Lord;

and you shall be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

63  ^dWho is this who comes from Edom,

in crimsoned garments from Bozrah,

he who is splendid in his apparel,

marching in the greatness of his strength?

“It is I, speaking in righteousness,

mighty to save.”

2  Why is your apparel red,

and your garments like his who treads in the ^ewinepress?

3  “I have trodden the winepress alone,

and from the peoples no one was with me;

I trod them in my anger

and trampled them in my wrath;

their lifeblood¹ spattered on my garments,

and stained all my apparel.

4  For the ^fday of vengeance was in my heart,

and my year of redemption² had come.

5  I looked, but ^gthere was no one to help;

I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;

so my own arm brought me salvation,

and my wrath upheld me.

6  I trampled down the peoples in my anger;

I made them drunk in my wrath,

and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

7  I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,

the praises of the Lord,

according to all that the Lord has granted us,

and the great goodness to the house of Israel

that he has granted them according to his compassion,

according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

8  For he said, “Surely they are my people,

^hchildren who will not deal falsely.”

And he became their Savior.

9  In all their affliction he was afflicted,³

and the angel of his presence saved them;

in his ⁱlove and in his pity he redeemed them;

he lifted them up and ^jcarried them all the days of old.

10  But ^kthey rebelled

and grieved his Holy Spirit;

therefore he turned to be their enemy,

and himself fought against them.

11  Then he remembered the days of old,

of Moses and his people.⁴

Where is he who brought them up out of the sea

with the shepherds of his flock?

Where is he who put in the midst of them

his Holy Spirit,

12  who caused his glorious arm

to go at the right hand of Moses,

^lwho divided the waters before them

to make for himself an everlasting name,

13  who ^mled them through the depths?

Like a horse in the desert,

they did not stumble.

14  Like livestock that go down into the valley,

the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.

So you led your people,

to make for yourself a glorious name.

15  ⁿLook down from heaven and see,

from your holy and beautiful⁵ habitation.

Where are your zeal and your might?

The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion

are held back from me.

16  For you are our Father,

though Abraham does not know us,

and Israel does not acknowledge us;

you, O Lord, are our Father,

our Redeemer from of old is your name.

17  O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways

and ^oharden our heart, so that we fear you not?

Return for the sake of your servants,

the tribes of your heritage.

18  Your holy people held possession for a little while;⁶

our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.

19  We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,

like those who are not called by your name.

64  Oh that you would rend the heavens and ^pcome down,

that the mountains might quake at your presence—

2  ¹ as when fire kindles brushwood

and the fire causes water to boil—

to make your name known to your adversaries,

and that the nations might tremble at your presence!

3  When you did awesome things that we did not look for,

you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.

4  From of old ^qno one has heard

or perceived by the ear,

no eye has seen a God besides you,

who acts for those who wait for him.

5  You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,

those who remember you in your ways.

Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;

in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?²

6  We have all become like one who is unclean,

and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.

We all fade like a leaf,

and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

7  There is no one who calls upon your name,

who rouses himself to take hold of you;

for you have ^rhidden your face from us,

and have made us melt in³ the hand of our iniquities.

8  But now, O Lord, you are our ^sFather;

we are the ^tclay, and you are our potter;

we are all the work of your hand.

9  Be not so ^uterribly angry, O Lord,

and ^vremember not iniquity forever.

Behold, please look, we are all your people.

10  Your holy cities have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

11  Our holy and beautiful⁴ house,

where our fathers praised you,

^whas been burned by fire,

and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

12  Will you ^xrestrain yourself at these things, O Lord?

Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

65  ^yI was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;

I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.

I said, “Here I am, here I am,”

to a nation that was not called by¹ my name.

2  ^zI spread out my hands all the day

to a ^arebellious people,

who walk in a way that is not good,

following their own devices;

3  a people who provoke me

to my face continually,

sacrificing in ^bgardens

and making offerings on bricks;

4  who sit in tombs,

and spend the night in secret places;

who eat ^cpig’s flesh,

and broth of ^dtainted meat is in their vessels;

5  who say, “Keep to yourself,

do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”

These are a smoke in my nostrils,

a fire that burns all the day.

6  Behold, it is written before me:

“I will not ^ekeep silent, but I will repay;

I will indeed repay into their lap

7  both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,

says the Lord;

because they made offerings ^fon the mountains

and insulted me on the hills,

I will measure into their lap

payment for their former deeds.”²

8  Thus says the Lord:

“As the new wine is found in the cluster,

and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,

for there is a blessing in it,’

so I will do for my servants’ sake,

and not destroy them all.

9  I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,

and from Judah possessors of my mountains;

my chosen shall possess it,

and my servants shall dwell there.

10  Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,

and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,

for my people who have ^gsought me.

11  But you who ^hforsake the Lord,

who forget my holy mountain,

who set a table for Fortune

and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,

12  I will destine you to the sword,

and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,

because, ⁱwhen I called, you did not answer;

when I spoke, you did not listen,

but you did what was evil in my eyes

and chose what I did not delight in.”

13  Therefore thus says the Lord God:

“Behold, my servants shall eat,

but you shall be hungry;

behold, my servants shall drink,

but you shall be thirsty;

behold, my servants shall rejoice,

but you shall be put to shame;

14  behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,

but you shall cry out for pain of heart

and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

15  You shall leave your name to my chosen ^jfor a curse,

and the Lord God will put you to death,

but his servants ^khe will call by another name,

16  so that he who blesses himself in the land

shall bless himself by the God of truth,

and he who takes an oath in the land

shall swear by the God of truth;

because the former troubles are forgotten

and are hidden from my eyes.

17  “For behold, I create ^lnew heavens

and a new earth,

and ^mthe former things shall not be remembered

ⁿor come into mind.

18  But be glad and rejoice forever

in that which I create;

for behold, I create Jerusalem to be ^oa joy,

and her people to be a gladness.

19  ^pI will rejoice in Jerusalem

and be glad in my people;

^qno more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping

and the cry of distress.

20  No more shall there be in it

an infant who lives but a few days,

or an old man who does not fill out his days,

for the young man shall die a hundred years old,

and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

21  ^rThey shall build houses and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22  They shall not ^sbuild and another inhabit;

they shall not plant and another eat;

for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,

and my chosen shall long enjoy³ the work of their hands.

23  They shall not labor in vain

or bear children for calamity,⁴

for they shall be the ^toffspring of the blessed of the Lord,

and their descendants with them.

24  ^uBefore they call I will answer;

^vwhile they are yet speaking I will hear.

25  ^wThe wolf and the lamb shall graze together;

the lion shall eat straw like the ox,

and ^xdust shall be the serpent’s food.

They shall not hurt or destroy

in all ^ymy holy mountain,”

says the Lord.