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Isaiah 62:12

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 62:12 they. The people and peoples of v. Isaiah 62:10. You refers to Zion.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THEY SHALL CALL THEM - It shall be the honorable and just name by which they shall be known, that they are a holy people, and that they are the redeemed of Yahweh. No name is so honorable as that;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. SOUGHT OUT. Hebrew. _Derushah._ NOT FORSAKEN. Hebrew. _L'o-Ne'ezabah._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Zion and its people shall then be recognised in their true character by all. _The holy people_ The priesthood of humanity; ch. Isaiah 61:6. _The redeemed of the Lord_ ch. Isaiah 35:10 [Isaiah 51:10];...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, THE LORD HATH PROCLAIMED— The scheme of this passage is so formed, that to the people of God, dispersed through all nations in a time of public affliction and persecution, the _voice of the Lo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. THOU SHALT BE CALLED, SOUGHT OUT - Sought after and highly prized by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HOLY PEOPLE] Israel's ideal character realised (Exodus 19:6 cp. Isaiah 61:6). SOUGHT OUT] contrast Jeremiah 30:17. NOT FORSAKEN] Cp. Isaiah 62

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The name ‘Holy Nation’ means that the people in Judah will be different from other people. The holy *Lord God has chosen them in particular to serve him in a special way. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of D...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD. — Literally, _ransomed,_ as in Isaiah 35:10; Isaiah 51:10. SOUGHT OUT..._ — i.e.,_ a city which men would seek after to honour, and promote its welfare. (Comp. the opposite,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ קָרְא֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם עַם ־הַ קֹּ֖דֶשׁ גְּאוּלֵ֣

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A (o) city not forsaken. (o) That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS OH! for a portion of that holy zeal, which inflamed the minds of the faithful of old, when they preferred Zion, and her interests, above their chief joy! But now, alas! it may be said, in...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    12._And they shall call you a holy people. _He describes the benefit of the coming of the Lord; that is, because, by shewing that he takes care of his elect as his heritage, he will make it evident to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SHALL CALL THEM THE HOLY PEOPLE,.... For whom the way is prepared, to whom the standard is lifted up, and the proclamation made, and who upon it are gathered in to Christ the Saviour, and to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. Ver. 12. _And they shall call them the holy people._] Profane persons,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world_ Hath commanded his gospel to be preached _to every creature:_ or hath sent forth his messengers into all parts of the world, in order to the conver...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they shall call them, the children of Zion, the believers, THE HOLY PEOPLE, THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD, those who have received and are enjoying the salvation prepared for them; AND THOU, Zion herse...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY SHALL CALL THEM, The holy people; or, they shall be called, or they shall be, a peculiar, separate people, ISAIAH 4:3. SOUGHT OUT; or, one found that was lost: see EZEKIEL 34:16. Or, sought _out_...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 62:12 call H7121 (H8804) Holy H6944 People H5971 Redeemed H1350 (H8803) LORD H3068 called H7121 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    REDEEMED Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 62:12 One of the deadliest thoughts which can infect a human spirit is this I am of no use, no worth, to earth or to heaven. And yet it is a natural thought, the natural utterance of our selfis...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE NEW NAMH Isaiah 62:2; Isaiah 62:12. _Thou shalt be called by a new name. And they shall call them, &c._ According to the Hebrew idiom, the name which expresses the nature and character of a perso...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 26:19; De

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