Isaiah 62 KJV
Zion's New Name
Isaiah Chapter 62: Zion's New Name
The chapter's renaming motif (Hephzibah and Beulah) deliberately inverts Deuteronomic curse language from Deuteronomy 28, transforming terms of divine abandonment into marital endearments that signal an irrevocable new covenant identity for post-exilic Jerusalem.
1or Zionโs sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalemโs sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
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The chapter's renaming motif (Hephzibah and Beulah) deliberately inverts Deuteronomic curse language from Deuteronomy 28, transforming terms of divine abandonment into marital endearments that signal an irrevocable new covenant identity for post-exilic Jerusalem.
Isaiah 62:6's command for watchmen who 'never hold their peace' adapts the solitary prophetic watchman role from Ezekiel 3 and 33 into a communal, perpetual intercessory duty, implying that restoration depends on ceaseless human advocacy alongside divine action.
The 'highway' imagery in verse 10 echoes and extends Isaiah 40's wilderness road, but here it functions as a processional route for returning exiles carrying 'ensigns' for the nations, linking return from Babylon to an eschatological ingathering of Gentiles.
Verse 8's oath that Yahweh will no longer give Zion's grain 'to thine enemies' draws on ancient suzerain-vassal treaty formulas where agricultural plunder signaled covenant breach, yet reframes it as an eternal divine self-binding that guarantees future security.
The bridegroom rejoicing over the bride in verse 5 supplies the precise Old Testament warrant for the New Testament's marriage ecclesiology, particularly influencing Revelation 21's descent of the New Jerusalem and Ephesians 5's christological reading of marital love.
Commentary & Study Notes Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (1871) ยท Public Domain I โ the prophet, as representative of all the praying people of God who love and intercede for Zion (compare Isa 62:6, 7; Ps 102:13-17), or else Messiah (compare Isa 62:6). So Messโฆ
Classic verse-by-verse commentary on Isaiah 62 from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871). Covers: Intercessory prayers for Zion's restoration, accompanying God's promises of it, as the appointed means of accomplishing it.
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- I โ the prophet, as representative of all the praying people of God who love and intercede for Zion (compare Isa 62:6, 7; Ps 102:13-17), or else Messiah (compare Isa 62:6). So Messiah is represented as unfainting in His efforts for His people (Isa 42:4; 50:7). righteousness thereof โ not its own inherently, but imputed to it, for its restoration to God's favor: hence "salvation" answers to it in the parallelism. "Judah" is to be "saved" through "the Lord our (Judah's and the Church's) righteousness" (Jer 23:6). as brightness โ properly the bright shining of the rising sun (Isa 60:19; 4:5; 2Sa 23:4; Pr 4:18). lamp โ blazing torch.
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- (Isa 11:10; 42:1-6; 49:7, 22, 23; 60:3, 5, 16). new name โ expression of thy new and improved condition (Isa 62:4), the more valuable and lasting as being conferred by Jehovah Himself (Isa 62:12; Isa 65:15; Re 2:17; 3:12).
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