CHAPTER LXII _The prophet opens this chapter with ardent prayers that the_ _happy period of reconciliation just now promised, and here_ _again foretold, may be hastened_, 1-5. _He then calls upon the faithful, particularly the priests and_ _Levites, to join him, urging the promises, and even th... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:4. _THY LAND BEULAH_] בעולה _beulah, married_. In the prophets, a _desolate land_ is represented under the notion of _a_ _widow_; an _inhabited land_, under that of a _married woman_, who has both a _husband_ and _children_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:5. _FOR AS A YOUNG MAN_ - SO] The particles of comparison are not at present in the _Hebrew_ Text: but the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Chaldee_ seem to have read in their copies כ _caph_ prefixed to the verb, כי כיבעל _ki keyibal_, which seems to have been omitted by mistake of a tran... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:6. _YE THAT MAKE MENTION OF THE LORD, KEEP NOT SILENCE_] The faithful, and in particular the priests and Levites, are exhorted by the prophet to beseech God with unremitted importunity (compare Luke 18:1, c.) to hasten the redemption of Sion. The image in this place is taken from th... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:9. _BUT THEY THAT HAVE GATHERED IT SHALL EAT IT, AND PRAISE_ _THE LORD_] This and the following line have reference to the law of Moses: "Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil; but thou must eat them before the Lord thy God, in the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:10. _OF THE PEOPLE _- "For the people"] Before the word העם _haam, the people_, two MSS. insert יהוה _Yehovah_; one MS. adds the same word after; and eight MSS., three ancient, instead of העם _haam_, have יהוה _Yehovah_, and so likewise one edition. But though it makes a good sense e... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:11. _UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD_] אל קצה הארץ _el ketseh_ _haarets_ - Instead of אל _el, to_, עד ad, UNTO, is the reading of two of _Kennicott's_ MSS.; and one of mine has מקצה _mikketseh_, "FROM the end of the earth." _BEHOLD, THY SALVATION COMETH_ - "Lo, thy Saviour cometh"] So all... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 62:12. _THEY SHALL CALL THEM_] These characteristics seem to be put in their inverted order. - 1. God will not _forsake_ them. 2. They shall be _sought out_. 3. They shall be _redeemed_. And, 4. Be in consequence a _holy people_. 1. When God _calls_, it is a proof that he has not _... [ Continue Reading ]