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         <div class="label">62</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Lord Takes Delight in Zion</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> &#8220;For the sake of Zion I will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">for the sake of Jerusalem</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will not be quiet,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">until her vindication shines brightly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;goes forth like brightness.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">and her deliverance burns like a torch.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> Nations will see your vindication,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">and all kings your splendor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">You will be called by a new name</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">that the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself will give you.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;which the mouth of the Lord will designate.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.62.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content"> You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.62.3"><span class="content">a royal turban in the hand of your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> You will no longer be called, &#8220;Abandoned,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">and your land will no longer be called &#8220;Desolate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">Indeed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Or &#8220;for&#8221;; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV &#8220;but.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> you will be called &#8220;My Delight is in Her,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Hebrew &#1495;&#1462;&#1508;&#1456;&#1510;&#1460;&#1497;&#1470;&#1489;&#1464;&#1492;&#1468; (kheftsi-vah), traditionally transliterated &#8220;Hephzibah&#8221; (so KJV, ASV, NIV).</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">and your land &#8220;Married.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Hebrew &#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1506;&#1493;&#1468;&#1500;&#1464;&#1492; (b&#255;&#8217;ulah), traditionally transliterated &#8220;Beulah&#8221; (so KJV, ASV, NIV).</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take delight in you,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">and your land will be married to him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn That is, the land will be restored to the Lord&#8217;s favor and once again enjoy his blessing and protection. To indicate the land&#8217;s relationship to the Lord, the words &#8220;to him&#8221; have been supplied at the end of the clause.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content"> As a young man marries a young woman,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">so your sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tc The Hebrew text has &#8220;your sons,&#8221; but this produces an odd metaphor and is somewhat incongruous with the parallelism. In the context (v. 4b, see also 54:5-7) the Lord is the one who &#8220;marries&#8221; Zion. Therefore several prefer to emend &#8220;your sons&#8221; to &#1489;&#1468;&#1465;&#1504;&#1464;&#1497;&#1460;&#1498;&#1456; (bonayikh, &#8220;your builder&#8221;; e.g., NRSV). In Ps 147:2 the Lord is called the &#8220;builder of Jerusalem.&#8221; However, this emendation is not the best option for at least four reasons. First, although the Lord is never called the &#8220;builder&#8221; of Jerusalem in Isaiah, the idea of Zion&#8217;s children possessing the land does occur (Isa 49:20; 54:3; cf. also 14:1; 60:21). Secondly, all the ancient versions support the MT reading. Thirdly, although the verb &#1489;&#1468;&#1464;&#1506;&#1463;&#1500; (ba&#8217;al) can mean &#8220;to marry,&#8221; its basic idea is &#8220;to possess.&#8221; Consequently, the verb stresses a relationship more than a state. All the ancient versions render this verb &#8220;to dwell in&#8221; or &#8220;to dwell with.&#8221; The point is not just that the land will be reinhabited, but that it will be in a relationship of &#8220;belonging&#8221; to the Israelites. Hence a relational verb like &#1489;&#1468;&#1464;&#1506;&#1463;&#1500; is used (J. N. Oswalt, Isaiah [NICOT], 2:581). Finally, &#8220;sons&#8221; is a well-known metaphor for &#8220;inhabitants&#8221; (J. de Waard, Isaiah, 208).</span></span></span><span class="content"> will marry you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">so your God will rejoice over you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content"> I</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.</span></span></span><span class="content"> post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="content">they should keep praying all day and all night.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.&#8221; The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord&#8217;s intervention and restoration of the city.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="content">You who pray to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Or &#8220;invoke&#8221;; NIV &#8220;call on&#8221;; NASB, NRSV &#8220;remind.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, don&#8217;t be silent!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.62.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> Don&#8217;t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn &#8220;Jerusalem&#8221; is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; note the following line.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.62.7"><span class="content">until he makes Jerusalem the pride</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;[the object of] praise.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> The </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> swears an oath by his right hand,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">by his strong arm:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn The Lord&#8217;s right hand and strong arm here symbolize his power and remind the audience that his might guarantees the fulfillment of the following promise.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I will never again give your grain </span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">to your enemies as food,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">and foreigners will not drink your wine,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">which you worked hard to produce.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> But those who harvest the grain</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;it,&#8221; the grain mentioned in v. 8a.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will eat it,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">and will praise the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;and those who gather it will drink it.&#8221; The masculine singular pronominal suffixes attached to &#8220;gather&#8221; and &#8220;drink&#8221; refer back to the masculine noun &#1514;&#1468;&#1460;&#1497;&#1512;&#1493;&#1465;&#1513;&#1473; (tirosh, &#8220;wine&#8221;) in v. 8b.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">in the courts of my holy sanctuary.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content"> Come through! Come through the gates!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Prepare the way for the people!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Build it! Build the roadway!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Remove the stones!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Lift a signal flag for the nations!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> Look, the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> announces to the entire earth:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Heb &#8220;to the end of the earth&#8221; (so NASB, NRSV).</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">&#8216;Look, your deliverer comes!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">Look, his reward is with him</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">and his reward goes before him!&#8217;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord&#8217;s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> They will be called, &#8220;The Holy People,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">the Ones Protected</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">tn Or &#8220;the redeemed of the Lord&#8221; (KJV, NAB).</span></span></span><span class="content"> by the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">You will be called, &#8220;Sought After,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">City Not Abandoned.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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“For the sake of Zion I will not be silent;
for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be quiet,
until her vindication shines brightly
and her deliverance burns like a torch.”
Nations will see your vindication,
and all kings your splendor.
You will be called by a new name
that the LORD himself will give you.
You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the LORD,
a royal turban in the hand of your God.
You will no longer be called, “Abandoned,”
and your land will no longer be called “Desolate.”
Indeed, you will be called “My Delight is in Her,”
and your land “Married.”
For the LORD will take delight in you,
and your land will be married to him.
As a young man marries a young woman,
so your sons will marry you.
As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.
I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
they should keep praying all day and all night.
You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!
Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem,
until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
The LORD swears an oath by his right hand,
by his strong arm:
“I will never again give your grain
to your enemies as food,
and foreigners will not drink your wine,
which you worked hard to produce.
But those who harvest the grain will eat it,
and will praise the LORD.
Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine
in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”
Come through! Come through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people!
Build it! Build the roadway!
Remove the stones!
Lift a signal flag for the nations!
Look, the LORD announces to the entire earth:
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him
and his reward goes before him!’”
They will be called, “The Holy People,
the Ones Protected by the LORD.”
You will be called, “Sought After,
City Not Abandoned.”

සවන් දෙන්න Isaiah 62