Swahili Bible2

62

1For 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.

2And 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.

3Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord,

And a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

4Thou 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 the Lord delighteth in thee,

And thy land shall be married.

5For 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.

6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,

Which shall never hold their peace day nor night:

Ye that make mention of the Lord,

Keep not silence, 7and give him no rest,

Till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

8The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,

Surely I will no more give 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:

9But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord;

And they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

10Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people;

Cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones;

Lift up a standard for the people.

11Behold, 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.

12And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord:

And thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.