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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Isaiah 62"
description: "CHAPTER 62   :-. INTERCESSORY
PRAYERS FOR ZION"
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CHAPTER 62

. INTERCESSORY
PRAYERS FOR ZION'S
RESTORATION, ACCOMPANYING
GOD'S PROMISES
OF IT, AS THE
APPOINTED MEANS
OF ACCOMPLISHING
IT.

**1. I**—the prophet, as
representative of all the praying people of God who love and
intercede for Zion (compare [Isaiah 62:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/6);
[Isaiah 62:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/7); [Psalms 102:13-17](../../../kjv/psalms/102/13-17)),
or else Messiah (compare [Isaiah 62:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/6)).
So Messiah is represented as unfainting in His efforts for His people
([Isaiah 42:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/42/4); [Isaiah 50:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/50/7)).
**righteousness thereof**—not
its own inherently, but imputed to it, for its restoration to God's
favor: hence "*salvation*" answers to it in the
parallelism. "Judah" is to be "*saved*"
through "the Lord *our* (Judah's and the Church's)
*righteousness*" ([Isaiah 50:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/50/7)).
**as brightness**—properly
the bright shining of the rising sun ([Isaiah 60:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/19);
[Isaiah 4:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/4/5); [2 Samuel 23:4](../../../kjv/2-samuel/23/4);
[Proverbs 4:18](../../../kjv/proverbs/4/18)).
**lamp**—blazing torch.

**2.** ([Isaiah 11:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/10);
[Isaiah 42:1-6](../../../kjv/isaiah/42/1-6); [Isaiah 49:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/7);
[Isaiah 49:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/22); [Isaiah 49:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/23);
[Isaiah 60:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/3); [Isaiah 60:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/5);
[Isaiah 60:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/16)).
**new name**—expression of
thy new and improved condition ([Isaiah 60:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/16)), the more valuable and lasting as being conferred by
Jehovah Himself ([Isaiah 62:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/12);
[Isaiah 65:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/15); [Revelation 2:17](../../../kjv/revelation/2/17);
[Revelation 3:12](../../../kjv/revelation/3/12)).

**3.** ()
**in . . . hand of . . .
Lord**—As a crown is worn on the *head,* not "in the
hand," *hand* must here be figurative for "under the
Lord's *protection*" (compare ). "All His saints are in thy hand." His people are
*in His hand* at the same time that they are "a crown of
glory" to Him ([Revelation 6:2](../../../kjv/revelation/6/2);
[Revelation 19:12](../../../kjv/revelation/19/12)); reciprocally, *He*
is "a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty" to them ([Revelation 19:12](../../../kjv/revelation/19/12); compare [Malachi 3:17](../../../kjv/malachi/3/17)).

**4. be termed**—*be*
"forsaken," so as that that term could be applicable to
thee.
**Hephzi-bah**— (), the name of Hezekiah's wife, a type of Jerusalem, as
Hezekiah was of Messiah ([Isaiah 32:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/1)):
"my delight is in her."
**Beulah**—"Thou art
married." See the same contrast of Zion's past and future state
under the same figure ([Isaiah 54:4-6](../../../kjv/isaiah/54/4-6);
[Revelation 21:2](../../../kjv/revelation/21/2); [Revelation 21:4](../../../kjv/revelation/21/4)).
**land . . . married**—to
Jehovah as its *Lord and Husband:* implying not only ownership,
but *protection* on the part of the Owner [HORSLEY].

**5. thy sons**—rather, changing
the points, which are of no authority *in Hebrew,* "thy
builder" or "restorer," that is, God; for in the
parallel clause, and in [Isaiah 62:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/4),
God is implied as being "married" to her; whereas her
"sons" could hardly be said to marry their mother; and in
[Isaiah 49:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/18), they are said to be
her *bridal ornaments,* not her husband. The *plural* form,
*builders,* is used of God in reverence as "husbands"
(see on [Isaiah 62:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/5)).
**over the bride**—in the
possession of the bride ([Isaiah 65:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/19);
[Jeremiah 32:41](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/41); [Zephaniah 3:17](../../../kjv/zephaniah/3/17)).

**6. I**—Isaiah speaking in the
person of the Messiah.
**watchmen upon . . .
walls**—image from the watches set upon a city's wall to look out
for the approach of a messenger with good tidings ([Isaiah 52:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/52/7);
[Isaiah 52:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/52/8)); the good tidings of
the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon, prefiguring the return
from the present dispersion (compare [Isaiah 21:6-11](../../../kjv/isaiah/21/6-11);
[Isaiah 56:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/56/10); [Ezekiel 3:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/3/17);
[Ezekiel 33:7](../../../kjv/ezekiel/33/7)). The watches in the
East are announced by a loud cry to mark the vigilance of the
watchmen.
**ye that . . . mention . . .
Lord**—*Hebrew,* "ye that are the Lord's
remembrancers"; God's servants who by their prayers "put
God in remembrance" of His promises ([Ezekiel 33:7](../../../kjv/ezekiel/33/7)); we are required to *remind* God, as if God could,
which He cannot, *forget* His promises ([Psalms 119:49](../../../kjv/psalms/119/49);
[Jeremiah 14:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/14/21)).

**7. no rest**—*Hebrew,*
"silence"; keep not silence *yourselves,* nor let *Him*
rest in silence. Compare as to Messiah Himself, "I will not hold
. . . peace . . . not rest" (); Messiah's watchmen ([Isaiah 62:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/6);
[Isaiah 62:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/7)) imitate *Him* ([Isaiah 62:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/7)) in intercessory "prayer without ceasing" for
Jerusalem ([Psalms 122:6](../../../kjv/psalms/122/6); [Psalms 51:18](../../../kjv/psalms/51/18));
also for the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church ([Luke 18:1](../../../kjv/luke/18/1);
[Luke 18:7](../../../kjv/luke/18/7); [Romans 1:9](../../../kjv/romans/1/9)).
**a praise**—(See on [Romans 1:9](../../../kjv/romans/1/9); [Zephaniah 3:20](../../../kjv/zephaniah/3/20)).

**8. sworn by . . . right hand**—His
mighty instrument of accomplishing His will (compare [Isaiah 45:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/23);
[Hebrews 6:13](../../../kjv/hebrews/6/13)).
**sons of . . .
stranger**—*Foreigners* shall no more rob thee of the fruit
of thy labors (compare [Isaiah 65:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/21);
[Isaiah 65:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/22)).

**9. eat . . . and praise**—not
consume it on their own lusts, and without thanksgiving.
**drink it in . . . courts**—They
who have *gathered* the vintage shall drink it at the feasts
held in the courts surrounding the temple ([Deuteronomy 12:17](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/12/17);
[Deuteronomy 12:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/12/18); [Deuteronomy 14:23](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/14/23),
&c.).

**10.** What Isaiah in the person of
Messiah had engaged in ([Isaiah 62:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/1))
unrestingly to seek, and what the watchmen were unrestingly to pray
for ([Isaiah 62:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/7)), and what
Jehovah solemnly promised ([Isaiah 62:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/8);
[Isaiah 62:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/9)), is now to be
fulfilled; the Gentile nations are commanded to "go through the
gates" (either of their own cities [ROSENMULLER]
or of Jerusalem [MAURER]),
in order to remove all obstacles out of "the way of *the*
people (Israel)" (see on [Isaiah 62:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/9); [Isaiah 40:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/3); [Isaiah 52:10-12](../../../kjv/isaiah/52/10-12)).
**standard**—for the
dispersed Jews to rally round, with a view to their return ([Isaiah 49:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/22);
[Isaiah 11:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/12)).

**11. salvation**—embodied in the
Saviour (see [Zechariah 9:9](../../../kjv/zechariah/9/9)).
**his work**—rather,
*recompense* ([Isaiah 40:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/10)).

**12. Sought out**—*Sought after
and highly prized* by Jehovah; answering to "not forsaken"
in the parallel clause; no longer abandoned, but loved; image from a
wife ([Isaiah 62:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/4); [Jeremiah 30:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/14)).

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