Isa 62:6-12 - Commentary

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Text -- Isaiah 62:6-12 (NET)

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62:6 I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. night. You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent! 62:7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth. 62:8 The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: “I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce. 62:9 But those who harvest the grain will eat it, and will praise the Lord. Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary.” 62:10 Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations! 62:11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth: “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘Look, your deliverer comes! Look, his reward is with him and his reward goes before him!’” 62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the Lord.” You will be called, “Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin

· Zion one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built; the temple area; the city of Jerusalem; God's people,a town and citidel; an ancient part of Jerusalem

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 62:6 Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”

NET Notes: Isa 62:7 Heb “[the object of] praise.”

NET Notes: Isa 62:8 The Lord’s right hand and strong arm here symbolize his power and remind the audience that his might guarantees the fulfillment of the following...

NET Notes: Isa 62:9 Heb “and those who gather it will drink it.” The masculine singular pronominal suffixes attached to “gather” and “drink&...

NET Notes: Isa 62:11 As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.

NET Notes: Isa 62:12 Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).

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