Isaiah · Literal Standard Version
Isaiah 62 Literal Standard Version
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1 For Zion’s sake I am not silent, || And for Jerusalem’s sake I do not rest, || Until her righteousness goes out as brightness, || And her salvation burns as a torch.
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 nations have seen your righteousness, || And all kings your glory, || And He is giving a new name to you, || That the mouth of YHWH defines.
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 you have been a crown of beauty in the hand of YHWH, || And a turban of royalty in the hand of your God,
3 You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.
4 It is not said of you anymore, “Forsaken!” And of your land it is not said anymore, “Desolate,” || For to you is cried, “My delight [is] in her,” || And to your land, “Married,” || For YHWH has delighted in you, || And your land is married.
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 a young man marries a virgin, || Your builders marry you, || With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, || Your God rejoices over you.
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 “On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, || All the day and all the night, || Continually, they are not silent.” O you remembering YHWH, do not keep silence for yourselves,
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 do not give silence to Him, || Until He establishes, and until He makes 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 YHWH has sworn by His right hand, || Even by the arm of His strength: “I do not give your grain anymore [as] food for your enemies, || Nor do sons of a stranger drink your new wine, || For which you have labored.
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 those gathering it eat it, and have praised YHWH, || And those collecting it 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 Pass on, pass on through the gates, || Prepare the way of the people, || Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, || Lift up an ensign over the peoples.
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, YHWH has proclaimed to the end of the earth: “Say to the daughter of Zion, || Behold, your salvation has come, || Behold, His hire [is] with Him, || And His wage 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 have cried to them, “The People of the Holy One! The Redeemed of YHWH!” Indeed, to you is called, “The sought out one, a city 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)