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BOOK 23 OF 66 · MAJOR PROPHETS · KING JAMES BIBLE

Isaiah 62

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Isaiah refuses silence until Zion’s righteousness shines; Jerusalem receives a new name, watchmen continually remind the LORD of His promise, and a highway is prepared for the returning redeemed whose Savior comes with reward.

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Before you read Isaiah 62

Coming from

The Spirit-anointed speaker announces good tidings to the meek, healing for the brokenhearted, liberty, comfort, and the LORD’s acceptable year; Zion’s mourners are transformed, and the people rejoice in garments of salvation and righteousness.

In this chapter

Isaiah refuses silence until Zion’s righteousness shines; Jerusalem receives a new name, watchmen continually remind the LORD of His promise, and a highway is prepared for the returning redeemed whose Savior comes with reward.

Leads into

A blood-stained divine warrior comes from Edom after treading the winepress of judgment; Isaiah then recalls the LORD’s past lovingkindness, Israel’s rebellion, and the Spirit’s presence, turning the memory into a plea for renewed mercy.

Key understandingExplore deeper

The chapter intensifies the restoration of Zion from chapters 60–61. Shameful names such as Forsaken are replaced with covenant delight and marriage imagery.

The interpretive center of Isaiah 62 is the chapter’s own movement: god’s restoration changes identity and reputation. Read its poetry, signs, historical references, and later biblical connections from that center rather than treating isolated phrases as detached slogans.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

God’s restoration changes identity and reputation

Zion’s former desolation gives way to a new name spoken by the LORD.

Persistent prayer belongs with confidence in promise

Watchmen give God no rest until Jerusalem becomes a praise in the earth.

Salvation includes both a coming Savior and a prepared people

The highway is cleared and Zion hears that salvation is coming.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Revelation 2:17; 3:12

New-name imagery reappears in promises to overcomers.

Revelation 19:7-9

Marriage imagery for God’s redeemed people provides a later canonical parallel to Zion as a bride.

Isaiah 40:3; 57:14

Highway preparation recurs throughout Isaiah’s new-exodus restoration imagery.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Do not literalize every marriage metaphor as if God has a physical spouse.

The imagery communicates covenant delight, belonging, and reversal of shame.

Do not treat persistent prayer as unbelief.

The watchmen pray precisely because God has promised restoration.

Read Isaiah 62 watching for…

Zion’s righteousness shining

the new name

marriage and delight imagery

watchmen who give no rest

the coming Savior and prepared highway

TWBC REVIEW STANDARD

Plain language. Scripture first. Fact distinguished from inference. No filler. No fake certainty. Designed to help you read the Bible itself.

Chapter outline3 sections
1-5Zion will no longer be forsaken but will be called by a new name and delight the LORD6-9Watchmen give the LORD no rest until Jerusalem is established, and her produce is secure10-12A highway is prepared and Zion’s salvation comes with reward
1

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's 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.