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For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.

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And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name.

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Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

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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.

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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah's remembrancers, take ye no rest,

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and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

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Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

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but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.

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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 an ensign for the peoples.

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Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

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And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.