This is not an instruction to prepare an actual road. The words provide a word picture. The meaning is that the citizens of *Jerusalem must give a very warm welcome to the *exiles on their arrival. And nothing should prevent this welcome.
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, instea...
GO THROUGH, GO THROUGH THE GATES - The connection of this with what goes before is not very apparent, and there has been a great diversity of opinion in regard to it among interpreters. Grotius suppos...
CHAPTER 62 Zion's Glory 1. _He will not rest (Isaiah 62:1) _ 2. _The new names (Isaiah 62:2) _ 3. _The intercession and the answer (Isaiah 62:6) _ 4. The accomplishment at hand ...
ISAIAH 62:6 F. Yahweh has appointed heavenly beings as an invisible guard of Jerusalem: their duty ever to sound in His ears, till its fulfilment, His promise to make her a renown in the earth. ISAIA...
THE PEOPLE. In Isaiah 40:3 the way is to be "prepared" for Messiah: here, for His People. CAST UP, CAST UP THE HIGHWAY. Compare Figures of speech _Epizeuxis_ and _Polyptoton._ App-6. See note on "hig...
_Go through, go through the gates_ To whom are these words addressed? The gates might be those of Babylon, in which case the passage is the exact counterpart of ch. Isaiah 48:20 ("Go ye forth of Babyl...
Announcement of the return of the exiles. The passage resembles ch. Isaiah 48:20 ff., Isaiah 52:11 f.; and at first sight it seems to imply that no exodus from Babylon has as yet taken place. This ind...
DISCOURSE: 1011 RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Isaiah 62:10. 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 th...
GO THROUGH, &C.— The chorus, having promised in the preceding verses great things to the church, here removes an objection which might arise to the completion of that promise, and teaches, that althou...
3. NEW NATURE TEXT: Isaiah 62:10-12 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 an ensign for the peoples. 1...
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. GO THROUGH, GO THROUGH THE GATES; PREPARE...
A command to prepare the way for the returning exiles (Isaiah 40:8; Isaiah 57:14). FOR THE PEOPLE] RV 'for the peoples,' that they may escort the Israelites....
1. The speaker is probably Jehovah Himself. HOLD MY PEACE] cp. Isaiah 42:14. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. her vindication, the setting of her right in the eyes of the world (cp. Isaiah 58:8). SALVATION] i....
GO THROUGH... — Here, probably, we have the cry of the prophet himself (but, possibly, also that of the Servant of Jehovah) addressed to the heralds, who are to go forth and summon the exiles to retur...
עִבְר֤וּ עִבְרוּ֙ בַּ † שְּׁעָרִ֔ים פַּנּ֖וּ דֶּ֣רֶךְ...
THE LAND OF BEULAH Isaiah 62:1-12 _The Intercessor_, Isaiah 62:1-4. Messiah is speaking here. Throughout the ages, He ever lives to make intercession. He asks that His Church may be one, that the hea...
Having thus dealt with the material prosperity, and with the spiritual realization, the prophet now describes in greater detail the vocational fulfilment. Speaking as in the midst of circumstances of...
(l) 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. (l) Signifying the great number that wo...
_People, that they may return to Judea, and be converted to Christ. (Calmet)_...
The gospel way is a high way, and was all along to be so marked; and the Lord promised that it should be so plain, that the way faring men, though fools, should not err therein; Isaiah 35:8. And the c...
10._Pass through, pass through the gates. _From the preceding statement he draws the conclusion, that there shall be a free passage through the gates of the city, which formerly were shut or in a ruin...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 61 AND 62. As Chapter s 50-53 presented Christ in His sufferings, chapter 61 exhibits Him in the full grace of His Person concerned in the blessing of Israel....
GO THROUGH, GO THROUGH THE GATES,.... Open them, and keep them open for persons to enter in; meaning not the gates of Jerusalem, which those in it should open for the reception of the Jews returning f...
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. Ver. 10. _Go through, go through the gates....
_Go through the gates_ Namely, the gates of Babylon, which shall be thrown open, that those confined in that idolatrous city may leave it with freedom, and return to the land of Israel. In other words...
Go through, go through the gates, so the members of the Church appeal to the strangers without, asking them to assemble in their own cities and make ready for the final great home-coming; PREPARE YE T...
ZION THE BRIDE OF JEHOVAH. The prophecy concerning the glory of Zion's perfection here reaches the highest point of exaltation: _ the congregation of the redeemed as the bride and spouse of the Lord....
10-12 Way shall be made for Christ's salvation; all difficulties shall be removed. He brings a reward of comfort and peace with him; but a work of humiliation and reformation before him; and they sha...
GO THROUGH, GO THROUGH THE GATES; it is doubled by way of emphasis: q.d. Make haste to your own land; as if Cyrus should say, Get you out of captivity as soon as you will, ISAIAH 48:20. Or it may inti...
Isaiah 62:10 through H5674 (H8798) through H5674 (H8798) gates H8179 Prepare H6437 (H8761) way H1870 people...
ISAIAH CALLS ON HIS FOLLOWERS TO BE WATCHMEN AND PREPARERS OF THE WAY (ISAIAH 62:6). These words probably to be seen as the words of Isaiah, although they could till be the words of the Anointed One....
CONTENTS: Restoration of Israel to God's favor, and honor with the nations. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel's full salvation is sure to come when they are regathered and their Redeemer r...
Isaiah 62:1. _For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace._ The Redeemer speaks by his prophet; the zeal of his Father's house absorbed his soul. He imparted his Spirit to the apostles; they could not be...
_Go through, go through the gates_ THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS I. THE GLORIOUS EVENT TO BE PROCLAIMED (Isaiah 62:11). When the Divine Spirit would attract special attention to any subject, He prefixe...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 62:10 THE PEOPLE... THE PEOPLES is Israel plus all others willing to join them (see Isaiah 56:8;...
ACTIVE ZEAL IN SPREADING THE GOSPEL Isaiah 62:10. _Go through, go through the gates, &c._ I. THE GENERAL ORDERS OF OUR GREAT LEADER. 1. _The general order._ The Church is considered under the figure...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 62:1 FURTHER GRACIOUS PROMISES MADE TO ISRAEL BY "THE SERVANT." Some regard the speaker in this chapter as Jehovah; some as the prophet, or the prophetical order; some as "the Serva...
In chapter 62, God continues to speak of the restoration of Israel. For Zion's sake [that is, Jerusalem] will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness th...
Exodus 17:15; Hebrews 12:13; Isaiah 11:12; Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 40:3;...
Go through — It is doubled by way of emphasis. Go meet the Gentiles, whom God purposes to bring into the church. Prepare — Let them not have any obstructions in their way. Stones — That there be no st...