Isaiah · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Isaiah 62 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 For Sion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp.
1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy just one, and all kings thy glorious one: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
2 The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.
3 And thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
3 You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
4 Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited.
4 You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
5 For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
6 Upon thy wails, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen all the day, and all the night, they shall never hold their peace. You that are mindful of the Lord, hold not your peace,
6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
7 And give him no silence till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
7 and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise on 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 thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.
8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
9 For they that gather it, shall eat it, and shall praise the Lord: and they that bring it together, shall drink it in my holy courts.
9 but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise Yahweh. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.
10 Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.
11 Behold the Lord hath made it to be heard in the ends of the earth, tell the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Saviour cometh: behold his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’”
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord. But thou shalt be called: A city sought after, and not forsaken.
12 They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.
Cross references (12)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 62:6–7; Proverbs 4:18; Psalm 102:13–16; Isaiah 32:15–17; Luke 2:30–32
- 2 Isaiah 62:12; Isaiah 65:15; Revelation 2:17; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 17:5
- 3 Isaiah 28:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:19; Zechariah 9:16; Luke 2:14
- 4 Zephaniah 3:17; Hosea 2:19–20; Isaiah 62:12; Isaiah 54:5–7; Jeremiah 32:41
- 5 Isaiah 62:4; Isaiah 65:19; Hebrews 12:2; Jeremiah 32:41; Psalm 45:11–16
- 6 Isaiah 52:8; Ezekiel 3:17–21; Psalm 134:1–2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; Jeremiah 6:17
- 7 Zephaniah 3:19–20; Jeremiah 33:9; Isaiah 60:18; Luke 18:1–8; Matthew 6:9–10
- 8 Isaiah 65:21–23; Judges 6:3–6; Deuteronomy 28:31; Deuteronomy 28:33; Ezekiel 20:5
- 9 Deuteronomy 16:11; Deuteronomy 12:7; Deuteronomy 12:12; Deuteronomy 16:14; Deuteronomy 14:23–29
- 10 Isaiah 57:14; Isaiah 40:3; Hebrews 12:13; Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 11:10
- 11 Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:5; John 12:15; Revelation 22:12; Isaiah 40:9–10
- 12 1 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 26:19; Isaiah 62:4; Deuteronomy 28:9; Isaiah 35:9
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And thus He forewarns us: "Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work." He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this, that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work.
For Esaias the Prophet says, Behold, thy Saviour cometh, having His own reward.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)