Zion’s Coming Salvation
1 ver. 6, 7For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,
[Prov. 4:18]until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
2 ch. 60:3;Ps. 98:2The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
ch. 60:14;[Rev. 2:17;3:12]and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be Zech. 9:16;[ch. 54:11, 12]a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 Hos. 1:10;1 Pet. 2:10;See ch. 54:6You shall no more be termed ch. 49:14;54:1,7;60:15Forsaken,62:4 Hebrew Azubah
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,62:4 Hebrew Shemamah
[See ver. 2above] but you shall be called Mal. 3:12My Delight Is in Her,62:4 Hebrew Hephzibah
and your land Married;62:4 Hebrew Beulah
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so [ch. 51:18] shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so ch. 65:19shall your God rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set ch. 52:8;56:10watchmen;
all the day and all the night
they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
take no rest,
7 and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it ch. 60:18;[ch. 61:11;Zeph. 3:20]a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn [Heb. 6:13] by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
"I will not again give Deut. 28:33;Jer. 5:17your grain
to be food for your enemies,
[ch. 65:21,22]and foreigners shall not drink your wine
for which you have labored;
9 but [Deut. 12:12;14:23,26]those who garner it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and [Deut. 12:12;14:23,26]those who gather it shall drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary."62:9 Or in my holy courts
10 Go through, go through the gates;
ch. 40:3prepare the way for the people;
ch. 57:14build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
ch. 11:10;49:22lift up a signal over the peoples.
11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
Zech. 9:9;[Matt. 21:5;John 12:15] Say to the daughter of Zion,
ch. 40:10"Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him."
12 ch. 61:6And they shall be called The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
ver. 4;[ch. 61:4]and you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.