Isaiah 62 DBY
Summary: For Zion's sake the speaker will not keep silent until her righteousness shines forth like brightness, and she is given a new name by the LORD's own mouth, no longer called "Forsaken" but "Hephzibah" (my delight is in her) and her land "Beulah" (married), for the LORD delights in her as a bridegroom rejoices over a bride. Watchmen are set on Jerusalem's walls who will never keep silent day or night, reminding the LORD and giving Him no rest until Jerusalem is established and made a praise in the earth, and the LORD swears her grain and wine will no longer be given to enemies but enjoyed by those who labored for them. The people are commanded to go through the gates, prepare the way, and lift up a banner for the peoples, as the LORD proclaims to the daughter of Zion, "Behold, thy salvation cometh" (v. 11). The chapter closes naming Zion's redeemed people "The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD," and the city itself "Sought out, A city not forsaken."
1For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be still, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a torch that burneth.
2And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah will name.
3And thou shalt be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thyGod.
4Thou shalt no more be termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called, My delight is in her, and thy land, Married; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, shall thyGod rejoice over thee.
6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, keep not silence,
7and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, I will indeed no more give thy corn [to be] food for thine enemies; and the sons of the alien shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast laboured;
9for they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a banner for the peoples.
11Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.
12And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah; and thou shalt be called, The sought out, The city not forsaken.
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