Your God will rejoice in you
1 For Zion¡¯s sake I will not hold my peace,
for Jerusalem I will not keep silent,
until her holiness shines like the dawn
and her salvation flames like a burning torch.
2 The nations will see your holiness
and all the kings your glory.
You will be called by a new name
which the mouth of Yahweh will reveal.
3 You will be a crown of glory
in the hand of Yahweh,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 No longer will you be named For saken;
no longer will your land be called
Abandoned;
but you will be called My Delight
and your land Espoused.
For Yahweh delights in you
and will make your land his spouse.
5 As a young man marries a virgin,
so will your builder marry you;
and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride,
so will your God rejoice in you.
He who sows will reap
6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have stationed watchmen; all the day and
throughout the night they will not be silent.
You who call on Yahweh, give your selves no rest;
7 and give him no rest either till he restores Jerusalem and makes of it the
pride of the earth.
8 Yahweh swears by his right hand and by his mighty arm: Never again will I
give your grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink the wine
for which you have labored.
9 But those who toil will eat the harvest, and praise Yahweh; and those
working for the vintage shall drink of the wine in the courts of my
sanctuary.
10 ¡°Pass through, pass through the gates, prepare the way for the people.
Build it up, bank up the highway, clear it of stones; raise up a standard
for the peoples.¡±
11 For Yahweh proclaims to the ends of the earth:
Say to the daughter of Zion, here comes your salvation! Yahweh brings the
reward of his victory, his booty is carried before him.
12 They shall be called the holy people, the redeemed of Yahweh; and you
shall be called The Sought After, a city no longer abandoned.
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Comments Isaiah, Chapter 62
• 62.1 What was said on the subject in chapter 60 can be applied here. In a
new way, this song repeats what was said about the future Jerusalem in 4:2
and in chapters 40¨C55.
Jerusalem, the lasting city of the children of God, the bride of the Lord,
filled with his riches and the delight of her God. Why does God remind us so
many times of those wonders which have yet to happen?
¨C So that we may keep up our hope in trials and dark times. This is how Paul
encourages us in Romans 8:16. Also, when things are going well and we are
filled with earthly hopes, the same wisdom must help us to be detached from
all this, in the knowledge that something much better still awaits us.
¨C On the other hand, the heavenly Jeru salem is already present. Those who
have come into the church already have the favors promised to David of which
we have just spoken; they already enjoy them if they have received the gifts
of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 13:34). These pages are an invitation to see
God at work in the world through the Church.