Your God will rejoice in you
1 ① For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace,
for Jerusalem I will not keep silent,
until her holiness shines like the dawn
and her salvation flames like a burning torch.
2The nations will see your holiness and all the kings your glory.
You will be called by a new name which the mouth of Yahweh will reveal. 3You will be a crown of glory in the hand of Yahweh,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4No longer will you be named For saken; no longer will your land be called Abandoned;
but you will be called My Delight and your land Espoused. For Yahweh delights in you and will make your land his spouse. 5As a young man marries a virgin, so will your builder marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you.
He who sows will reap
6Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have stationed watchmen; all the day and throughout the night they will not be silent.
You who call on Yahweh, give yourselves no rest; 7and give him no rest either till he restores Jerusalem and makes of it the pride of the earth.
8Yahweh swears by his right hand and by his mighty arm: Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink the wine for which you have labored. 9But those who toil will eat the harvest, and praise Yahweh; and those working for the vintage shall drink of the wine in the courts of my sanctuary.
10“Pass through, pass through the gates, prepare the way for the people. Build it up, bank up the highway, clear it of stones; raise up a standard for the peoples.”
11For Yahweh proclaims to the ends of the earth:
Say to the daughter of Zion, here comes your salvation! Yahweh brings the reward of his victory, his booty is carried before him.
12They shall be called the holy people, the redeemed of Yahweh; and you shall be called The Sought After, a city no longer abandoned.
- Is 62,1 What was said on the subject in chapter 60 can be applied here. In a new way, this song repeats what was said about the future Jerusalem in 4:2 and in chapters 40-55. Jerusalem, the lasting city of the children of God, the bride of the Lord, filled with his riches and the delight of her God. Why does God remind us so many times of those wonders which have yet to happen? - So that we may keep up our hope in trials and dark times. This is how Paul encourages us in Romans 8:16. Also, when things are going well and we are filled with earthly hopes, the same wisdom must help us to be detached from all this, in the knowledge that something much better still awaits us. - On the other hand, the heavenly Jerusalem is already present. Those who have come into the church already have the favors promised to David of which we have just spoken; they already enjoy them if they have received the gifts of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 13:34). These pages are an invitation to see God at work in the world through the Church.
