Isaiah 43:7

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

²¹the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

¹²to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

⁹But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

²³and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory—

²The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the LORD’s mouth will name. ³You will also be a crown of beauty in the LORD’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand. ⁴You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah,^[+] and your land Beulah;^[+] for the LORD delights in you, and your land will be married. ⁵For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

¹But now the LORD who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

³Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

¹¹For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

⁵I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.