11FOR LIKE THE GROUND [WHICH] IT BRINGS FORTH GROWTH ITS AND LIKE A GARDEN [WHICH] THINGS SOWN IN IT IT MAKES GROW SO [THE] LORD YAHWEH HE WILL MAKE GROW RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PRAISE BEFORE ALL THE NATIONS 11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
1FOR [THE] SAKE OF ZION NOT I WILL BE SILENT AND FOR [THE] SAKE OF JERUSALEM NOT I WILL REMAIN QUIET UNTIL IT WILL GO FORTH LIKE <THE> BRIGHTNESS RIGHTEOUSNESS ITS AND SALVATION ITS LIKE A TORCH [WHICH] IT BURNS Zion’s Salvation and New Name 1For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
2AND THEY WILL SEE NATIONS RIGHTEOUSNESS YOUR AND ALL KINGS GLORY YOUR AND IT WILL BE CALLED TO YOU A NAME NEW WHICH [THE] MOUTH OF YAHWEH IT WILL DESIGNATE IT 2Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
3AND YOU WILL BE A CROWN OF BEAUTY IN [THE] HAND OF YAHWEH AND A HEADDRESS OF ROYALTY IN [THE] PALM OF GOD YOUR 3You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
4NOT IT WILL BE SAID OF YOU AGAIN ABANDONED AND OF LAND YOUR NOT IT WILL BE SAID AGAIN DESOLATION THAT TO YOU IT WILL BE CALLED HEPHZI- -BAH AND TO LAND YOUR MARRIED FOR HE DELIGHTS YAHWEH IN YOU AND LAND YOUR IT WILL BE MARRIED 4No longer will you be called Forsaken,*NoteCloseHebrew Azubah nor your land named Desolate;*NoteCloseHebrew Shemamah but you will be called Hephzibah,*NoteCloseHephzibah means My delight is in her. and your land Beulah;*NoteCloseBeulah means married. for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
5FOR HE MARRIES A YOUNG MAN A YOUNG WOMAN THEY WILL MARRY YOU SONS YOUR AND [THE] JOY OF A BRIDEGROOM ON A BRIDE HE WILL REJOICE ON YOU GOD YOUR 5For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
6ON WALLS YOUR O JERUSALEM I HAVE APPOINTED WATCHMEN ALL THE DAY AND ALL THE NIGHT CONTINUALLY NOT THEY WILL BE SILENT O THOSE [WHO] CAUSE TO REMEMBER <OBJ.> YAHWEH [LET] NOT REST [BELONG] TO YOU 6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
7AND MAY NOT YOU GIVE REST TO HIM UNTIL HE WILL ESTABLISH AND UNTIL HE WILL MAKE <OBJ.> JERUSALEM PRAISE ON THE EARTH 7nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.
8HE SWEARS AN OATH YAHWEH BY RIGHT [HAND] HIS AND BY [THE] ARM OF STRENGTH HIS IF I WILL GIVE <OBJ.> GRAIN YOUR AGAIN FOOD TO ENEMIES YOUR AND IF THEY WILL DRINK SONS OF FOREIGNNESS NEW WINE YOUR WHICH YOU HAVE LABORED FOR IT 8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
9FOR [THOSE WHO] GATHER IT THEY WILL EAT IT AND THEY WILL PRAISE <OBJ.> YAHWEH AND [THOSE WHO] GATHER IT THEY WILL DRINK IT IN [THE] COURTS OF HOLINESS MY 9For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
10PASS PASS IN THE GATES MAKE CLEAR [THE] WAY OF THE PEOPLE BUILD UP BUILD UP THE HIGHWAY CLEAR [IT] FROM STONE[S] RAISE A STANDARD OVER THE PEOPLES 10Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
11THERE! YAHWEH HE HAS PROCLAIMED TO [THE] END OF THE EARTH SAY TO [THE] DAUGHTER OF ZION THERE! SALVATION YOUR [IS] ABOUT TO COME THERE! REWARD HIS [IS] WITH HIM AND RECOMPENSE HIS [IS] <TO> BEFORE HIM 11Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”
12AND PEOPLE WILL CALL <TO> THEM [THE] PEOPLE OF <THE> HOLINESS [THE] REDEEMED OF YAHWEH AND TO YOU IT WILL BE CALLED [ONE] SOUGHT OUT A CITY [WHICH] NOT IT HAS BEEN FORSAKEN 12And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.