62:6 I 1 post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
they should keep praying all day and all night. 2
You who pray to 3 the Lord, don’t be silent!
62:7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, 4
until he makes Jerusalem the pride 5 of the earth.
62:8 The Lord swears an oath by his right hand,
by his strong arm: 6
“I will never again give your grain
to your enemies as food,
and foreigners will not drink your wine,
which you worked hard to produce.
62:9 But those who harvest the grain 7 will eat it,
and will praise the Lord.
Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine 8
in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”
62:10 Come through! Come through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people!
Build it! Build the roadway!
Remove the stones!
Lift a signal flag for the nations!
62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: 9
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him
and his reward goes before him!’” 10
62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People,
the Ones Protected 11 by the Lord.”
You will be called, “Sought After,
City Not Abandoned.”