Isaiah 62:1

LXII.

(1) For Zion’s sake... — Opinions again differ as to the speaker. Is he the prophet, or the Servant of Jehovah, or Jehovah Himself ? On the whole, the second view seems to be most in harmony with what follows. The true Servant will carry on what in the language of later theology may be called his mediatorial intercessory work, that there may be no delay in the fulfilment of the glorious promises that have just been uttered.

As brightness. — Better, as the brightness of morning, the word being thus used in Isaiah 60:3; Proverbs 4:18.

As a lamp... — Better, as a burning torch.