²For behold,

Darkness will cover the earth,

And thick clouds the various peoples,

³And Gentiles will go to your light,

And kings to your bright rising.

⁴Lift up your eyes round about and see:

They have all gathered

And have come to you.

Your sons will come from afar,

And your daughters will be carried alongside.

⁵Then you will see and be bright,

And your heart will be moved and open wide,

For the mass of seafarers will turn to you,

And a host of Gentiles will come to you.

⁶A great herd of camels will cover you

– Young camels from Midian and Ephah.

All of those from Sheba will come;

They will bear gold and frankincense,

And they will proclaim praises of the Lord.

⁷All the small cattle of Kedar will be gathered to you;

The rams of Nebaioth will serve you.

They will go up in acceptance onto my altar,

And I will adorn my magnificent house.

⁸Who are these who fly like a cloud,

And are like doves flying to their dovecotes?

⁹For it is me whom the coastlands await,

With the ships of Tarshish in the forefront,

To bring your sons from far away,

And their silver and their gold with them,

For the name of the Lord your God,

And for the holy one of Israel,

For he will glorify you.

¹⁰And foreigners will build your walls,

And their kings will serve you,

For I struck you in my anger,

But I will have mercy on you in my goodwill.

So as to allow a host of Gentiles to be brought to you,

With their kings being led.

¹²For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,

And such nations will be utterly wasted.

¹³The glory of Lebanon will come to you

– The cypress, the elm and the box tree together –

To adorn the place of my sanctuary,

And I will glorify the place of my feet.

¹⁴And the sons of those who afflicted you

Will go to you in submission,

And all those who despised you

Will bow down at the soles of your feet,

And they will call you the City of the Lord,

Zion, the Holy Place of Israel.

¹⁵Instead of you being forsaken and hated,

With no-one passing through,

I will make you the magnificence of the age

– A joy for generation upon generation.

¹⁶And you will suck the milk of the Gentiles,

And you will suck the breast of kings,

And you will know that I am the Lord your saviour,

And your redeemer

– The mighty one of Jacob.

¹⁷Instead of copper I will bring gold,

And instead of iron, I will bring silver,

And instead of the wood, copper,

And instead of the stones, iron.

And I will appoint you peaceable oversight,

And your tax gatherers in righteousness.

¹⁸Violence will no longer be heard in your land,

Nor devastation or ruin within your borders,

And you will call your walls, Salvation,

And your gates, Praise.

And your God will be your majesty.

²⁰Your sun will no longer set,

And your moon will not wane,

For the Lord will be your age-abiding light,

And the days of your mourning will have been fulfilled.

²¹And your people will all be righteous.

They will inherit the land age-abidingly,

As a shoot in my plantations

– The work of my hands for glorification.

²²He who is small will become a thousand,

And he who is little, a mighty nation.

I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 60: v.1 ↔ Ephesians 5:14 ● v.2 ↔ Ephesians 5:14 ● v.3 ↔ Revelation 21:24 ● v.11 ↔ Revelation 21:25 ● v.19 ↔ Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:5.