Isaiah 62:4

Zion's New Identity

³ You will be a glorious crown in the Lord’s hand,
and a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
⁴ You will no longer be called Deserted,
and your land will not be called Desolate;
instead, you will be called My Delight is in Her,
and your land Married;
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land will be married.
⁵ For as a young man marries a young woman,
so your sons will marry you;
and as a groom rejoices over his bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.

City of God

Lord Shall

Will of the Lord

Azubah

Beulah

Hephzibah

Jehovah

Judah

No

Jeremiah 32:41

I will take delight in them to do what is good for them, and with all My heart and mind I will faithfully plant them in this land.

Zephaniah 3:17

Yahweh your God is among you,
a warrior who saves.
He will rejoice over you with gladness.
He will bring you quietness with His love.
He will delight in you with shouts of joy.”

Isaiah 49:14

Zion says, “The Lord has abandoned me;
The Lord has forgotten me!”

Isaiah 54:1

“Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth;
burst into song and shout,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the forsaken one will be more
than the children of the married woman,”
says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:14

“Return, you faithless children”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for I am your master, and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Hosea 2:19-20

I will take you to be My wife forever.
I will take you to be My wife in righteousness,
justice, love, and compassion.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy.

Psalm 149:4

For Yahweh takes pleasure in His people;
He adorns the humble with salvation.

Isaiah 32:14-15

For the palace will be forsaken,
the busy city abandoned.
The hill and the watchtower will become
barren places forever,
the joy of wild donkeys,
and a pasture for flocks,

Isaiah 54:5-7

Indeed, your husband is your Maker—
His name is Yahweh of Hosts—
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
He is called the God of all the earth.

Isaiah 60:15

Instead of your being deserted and hated,
with no one passing through,
I will make you an object of eternal pride,
a joy from age to age.

Isaiah 61:10

I greatly rejoice in the Lord,
I exult in my God;
for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation
and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness,
as a groom wears a turban
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a young woman,
so your sons will marry you;
and as a groom rejoices over his bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.

Isaiah 62:12

And they will be called the Holy People,
the Lord’s Redeemed;
and you will be called Cared For,
A City Not Deserted.

Hosea 1:9-10

Then the Lord said:

Name him Not My People,
for you are not My people,
and I will not be your God.

John 3:29

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

Romans 9:25-27

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband—to present a pure virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:25-27

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

Hebrews 13:5

Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

Revelation 21:2

I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:9-10

Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”