Jerusalem to be restored and glorified
62
📚For Zion’s sake I 📖 will notkeep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake
I will not rest,
until its righteousness goes
forth like brightness,
and its salvation like
a burning lamp.
2 📚And the Gentiles 📖 will see
your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory;
and you will be called by
a new name 📖,
which the mouth of the LORD
will name.
3 📚You will also be a crown of glory
in the hand of the LORD,
and a royal diadem in the hand
of your God.
4 📚You will no longer be called
“Forsaken”,
nor will your land any longer be called
“Desolate 📖”,
but you will be called “Hephzibah”
and your land “Beulah”, for the LORD
delights in you,
and your land will be married.
5 📚For as a young man
marries a virgin,
so your sons will marry you;
and as the bridegroom
rejoices over the bride,
so your God will rejoice
over you.
62:5 This means that the people of Israel will again possess the land, and God will again regard Israel as a wife.⚜
6 📚I have set watchmen
on your walls,
O Jerusalem, who will never
keep silent, day or night.
You who make mention of the LORD,
do not keep silent,
7 📚And give him no rest,
until he establishes Jerusalem,
and until he makes it a praise
in the earth.
62:6-7 The speaker is either the Messiah the Son of God, or the Father. The truth revealed is the same in either case. For “watchman” see Isa 52:8; 56:10; Jer 6:17; 31:6; Ezek 3:17; 33:7. They should pray unceasingly for the restoration of Jerusalem. For “a praise in the earth” see Jer 33:9; Zeph 3:19-20.⚜
8 📚The LORD has sworn by his right hand,
and by the arm of his strength,
“Certainly I will no longer give
your grain to be food
for your enemies,
and the sons of foreigners will not
drink your wine,
for which you laboured;
9 📚But those who have gathered it
will eat it,
and praise the LORD,
and those who have brought it
together will drink it in my holy courts 📖”.
62:8-9 The word “sworn” indicates a very solemn and emphatic way of making a promise. The promise is that after Jerusalem’s restoration, oppression from enemies will cease forever.⚜
10 📚Go through,
go through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people!
Build up, build up the highway!
Take away the stones!
Lift up a banner for the people!
11 📚See, the LORD has proclaimed
to the ends of the earth:
“Tell the daughter of Zion:
Look, your salvation is coming 📖;
look, his reward is with him,
and his wages accompany him”.
12 📚And they will call them,
“The Holy People 📖”, “The Redeemed 📖
of the LORD”,
and you will be called,
“Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken”.