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: 1
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him
and his reward goes before him!’” 2
62:12 They will be called, “The Holy People,
the Ones Protected 3 by the Lord.”
You will be called, “Sought After,
City Not Abandoned.”
1 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).
2 sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.
3 tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).