Isaiah 62:1

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Summary

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.

Zion's

The righteousness

General references

Luke 2:31

Bible References

Zion's

I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never hold their peace day nor night: you that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.

Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.

You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love you.

If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

And the LORD shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.

Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:

Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.

The righteousness

And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Until the spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted as a forest.

My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the coastlands shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

[A Psalm.] O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, has gotten him the victory.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.

And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth out of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For my eyes have seen your salvation,

That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

General references

Which you have prepared before the face of all people;