2
Put around you the cloak of God's righteousness. Place on your head the crown of the glory of the Eternal God.
3
God will show your splendor to every nation on earth.
4
Forever he will say to you: "Your security comes from your righteousness, and your splendor from your devotion to me."
5
Get up, Jerusalem, stand on the mountaintop; see where God, the Holy One, is bringing your children together from the east and from the west. They are rejoicing that God has remembered them.
6
Jerusalem, your children were led away by their enemies; they left you on foot, but God is bringing them back to you, carried in royal splendor.
Footnotes 1
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Forever . . . devotion to me; [or] He will give you this name forever: "Peace from Righteousness and Glory from Godliness."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.