1 Ter wille van Sion sal Ek nie swyg nie en ter wille van Jerusalem nie stil wees nie, totdat sy geregtigheid uitbreek soos 'n glans en sy heil soos 'n fakkel wat brand.

2 En die nasies sal jou geregtigheid sien en al die konings jou heerlikheid; en jy sal met 'n nuwe naam genoem word wat die mond van die HERE sal noem.

3 En jy sal 'n sierlike kroon wees in die hand van die HERE en 'n koninklike tulband in die hand van jou God.

4 Jy sal nie meer genoem word Verlatene nie, en jou land sal nie meer genoem word Wildernis nie. Maar jy sal genoem word: my welbehae, en jou land: die getroude; want die Here het 'n behae in jou, en jou land sal getroud wees.

5 Want soos 'n jonkman 'n jongedogter trou, so sal jou kinders jou trou; en soos die bruidegom bly is oor die bruid, sal jou God oor jou bly wees.

6 o Jerusalem, Ek het wagte op jou mure uitgesit wat gedurigdeur die hele dag en die hele nag nie sal swyg nie. o Julle wat die HERE herinner aan sy beloftes -- moenie rus nie

7 en laat Hom nie met rus nie, totdat Hy Jerusalem bevestig en maak tot 'n lof op aarde!

8 Die HERE het gesweer by sy regterhand en by sy magtige arm: Waarlik, Ek sal jou koring nie meer gee dat jou vyande dit eet nie, en uitlanders sal jou mos nie drink waarvoor jy gewerk het nie.

9 Maar hulle wat dit insamel, sal dit eet en die HERE prys; en hulle wat dit oes, sal dit drink in my heilige voorhowe.

10 Gaan in, gaan in deur die poorte, berei die weg van die volk! Vul op, vul op die grootpad, gooi die klippe weg, steek 'n banier op oor die volke!

11 Kyk, die HERE laat dit hoor tot by die einde van die aarde: Sê aan die dogter van Sion: Kyk, jou heil kom; kyk, sy loon is by Hom en sy beloning is voor sy aangesig.

12 En hulle sal genoem word: die heilige volk, die verlostes van die HERE; en jy sal genoem word: die begeerde, die stad wat nie verlaat is nie.

1 Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

2 And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.

3 And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.

4 You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.

5 For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.

6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

8 The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

9 But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.

10 Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

11 The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him.

12 And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.