Isaiah 62:11

Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. SAY YE TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, BEHOLD, THY SALVATION COMETH - embodied in the Saviour (see ). BEHOLD, HIS REWARD IS WITH HIM, AND HIS WORK (RATHER, HIS RECOMPENCE FOR WORK, ) BEFORE HIM....

11._Behold, Jehovah hath, proclaimed. _He means that the Lord, by acting miraculously and beyond the judgment or expectation of the flesh, will cause all the nations to know that this is done by his command. It might be objected, How shall it be brought about that the peoples, who now make fierce resistance to God, shall become obedient to him? He assigns the reason, “Because the Lord will proclaim your return, so that they shall acknowledge that at his command you are restored.” _Say ye to the daughter of Zion. _Undoubtedly this refers literally to the ministers of the word and to the prophets, whom the Lord invests with this office of promising deliverance and salvation to the Church. And hence we conclude that these promises are not merely limited to a single age, but must be extended to the end of the world; for, beginning at the return from Babylon into Judea, we must advance as far...

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 shall be called, The holy people, and, The redeemed of the Lord. Holiness puts honour and beauty upon any place or person, makes them admired, beloved, and sought after. Many events may have been part fulfilments of this, as earnests of more glorious times yet to come. The close connexion between the blessedness of the Jews and of the Gentiles, runs through the Scriptures. The Lord Jesus will complete his work, and he never will forsake one whom he has redeemed and sanctified....

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 the ancient Versions render the word ישעך _yishech_. _BEHOLD, HIS REWARD_] Isaiah 40:10; _"_Isaiah 40:11_"_. This _reward_ he carries as it were in his hand. _His work is before_ _him_ - he perfectly knows what is to be done; and is perfectly able to do it. He will do what God should do, and what man cannot do;

BEHOLD THE LORD HATH PROCLAIMED - Proclamation is made to all nations that Yahweh is about to come and rescue his people. SAY YE TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION - To Jerusalem (see the notes at Isaiah 1:8). THY SALVATION COMETH - Lowth renders this, ‘Lo!, thy Saviour cometh.’ So the Vulgate, the Septuagint, the Chaldee, and the Syriac. The Hebrew word properly means salvation, but the reference is to God as the Deliverer or Saviour. The immediate allusion is probably to the return from Babylon, but the remote and more important reference is to the coming of the Redeemer (see the notes at Isaiah 40:1). BEHOLD, HIS REWARD IS WITH HIM - See these words explained in

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 Servant." The last supposition appears to us the simplest and the best. The close connection with the preceding chapter is evident. If that then be, in the main, "a soliloquy of the Servant," this should he a continuation of the soliloquy. Israel is promised "righteousness," "glory," "a new name," a guard of angels, a time of peace and prosperity, deliverance from Babylon, and triumphant establishment in Zion under God's protection....

BEHOLD, THE LORD HATH PROCLAIMED UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD,.... This is not to be interpreted of the proclamation by Cyrus, giving liberty to the people of the Jews to return to their own land, for that did not reach to the end of the world; but of the proclamation of the Gospel, which, as when first published, the sound of it went into all the earth, and the words of it to the ends of the world, Romans 10:18. So it will be in the latter day, when it shall be preached to all nations, from one end of the world to the other, Revelation 14:6: SAY YE TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, BEHOLD, THY SALVATION COMETH; or "thy Saviour" l, or "thy Redeemer", as the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions; and which is to be understood not of his first coming, or of his incarnatio

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 62:10) _ The intercession in the beginning of the chapter is that of Christ. He will not rest till He has accomplished His purpose in His earthly people and in Zion. When it is accomplished Gentiles and kings will witness it. Zion then shall be called by a new name. The forsaken one will no longer be forsaken; the desolation of the land will cease. She shall be called Hephzibah (my delight in her); the land will be Beulah (mar

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. ISAIAH 62:8 F. Yahweh has pledged His omnipotence that no longer shall marauders plunder the fields and vineyards of His people, but, protected from invasion, they shall enjoy their produce and celebrate in the Temple the feasts of ingathering. ISAIAH 62:10_ a_. Anticipating the glad return to Zion from the Dispersion, the prophet bids the inhabitants go forth and make ready the road for the entry of the exiles, banking up the causeway and clearing it of stones, and raising a standard to which they may

BEHOLD. Figure of speech. _Asterismos_. App-6. WORLD. Hebrew earth. Hebrew. _'eretz._ WORK. recompense....