Isaiah Chapter 62
From The Open Bible Project
62:1 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 burns.
- (a) The prophet says that he will never cease to declare to the people the good tidings of their deliverance.
- (b) Till they have full deliverance: and this the prophet speaks to encourage all other ministers to the setting forth of God�s mercies toward his Church.
62:2 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.
- (c) You will have a more excellent fame than you have had till now.
62:3 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
- (d) He will value you as dear and precious as a king does his crown.
62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.
- (e) You will no longer be contemned as a woman forsaken by her husband.
- (f) That it may be replenished with children.
62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- (g) As they confess one faith and religion with you, they are in the same bond of marriage with you, and they are called the children of the Church, as Christ makes her plentiful to bring forth children to him.
62:6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
- (h) Prophets, pastors and ministers.
- (i) He exhorts the ministers never to cease to call on God by prayer for the deliverance of his Church and to teach others to do the same.
62:7 and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
- (k) For the restoration of which all the world will praise him.
62:8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
62:9 but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary."
62:10 Go 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.
- (l) Signifying the great number that would come to the Church, and what means he would prepare for the restitution of the same, as in (Isaiah 57:14).
62:11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'"
- (m) You prophets and ministers show the people of this their deliverance: which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, (Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:5).
- (n) He will have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as in (Isaiah 40:10).
62:12 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
- (o) That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.
