2. Post-Exile: The Blessing & Judgment Cycles ( 40:1 - 66:24 ) - 701-681 B.C., Israel

(These 8 groups of prophecies alternate between blessings on Israel and judgment on God's enemies.)

G. Cycle 7 (60:1 - 63:6)

1. Blessing: On the LORD's People at an Appointed Time (60:1 - 62:12)

c. The LORD Will Make His People Righteous, Glorify Them, and Spiritually Marry Them (62:1-12)

¹ 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 [this] the LORD,
keep not silence,
⁷ And give him no rest,
till he establish,
and till he make [this] 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 [this] 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 [this] the LORD;
and they that have bought 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.