Isaiah 62:10-12

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.”

[62:11]  ¹ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).

[62:11]  ² sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.

[62:12]  ³ tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).