Isaiahchapter 62

12 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 172 cross-references outward and receives 228 — heaviest partner: Isaiah.

Chapter summary

Zion's vindication drives this chapter: the speaker will not hold his peace until her righteousness goes forth as brightness. Nations and kings will see her glory, and she receives a new name from Jehovah's own mouth — no longer Forsaken and Desolate but Hephzi-bah ("my delight is in her") and Beulah ("married"), for as a bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so God rejoices over her. Watchmen posted on Jerusalem's walls are charged to give Jehovah no rest until he makes the city a praise in the earth. Jehovah swears by his right hand that enemies will no more eat her grain or drink her new wine. Commands follow — go through the gates, cast up the highway, lift up an ensign — and a proclamation to the daughter of Zion: her salvation comes, and she will be called "Sought out, a city not forsaken."

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Prophecy · Isaiah — see the Isaiah overview for the book's full setting.

1 For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth.

2 And 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 shall name.

3 Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’s remembrancers, take ye no rest,

7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

8 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

9 but 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 sanctuary.

10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.

11 Behold, 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 recompense before him.

12 And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

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