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Isaiah 62

1 The great desire that the Prophets have had for Christ’s comming. 6 The diligence of the Pastors to preach.
1.For Zión’s sake I will not ahold my tongue, and for Jerusalém’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof break forth as the blight, and salvation thereof as a burning lamp.
2.And the Gentiles shal see thy righteousness, and all Kings thy glorie: and thou shalt be called by ca new name, which the mouth of the Lord shal Name.
3.Thou shalt also be a dcrown of glorie in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4.It shall no more be said unto thee, eForsaken, neither shal it be said any more to thy land, Desolate, but thou shalt be called ^Hephzi-báh, and thy land ^Beuláh: for the Lord deliteth in thee, and thy land shal have an fhousband.
5.For as a yong man marieth a virgin, so shal thy sons gmary thee: and as a bridegrome is glad of the bride, so shal thy God rejoyce over thee.
6.I have set hwatch men upon thy walls, ô Jerusalém, which all the day and all the night continually shal not cease: iye that are mindful of the Lord, keep not silence.
7.And give him no rest, til he repair and until he set up Jerusalém the kpraise of the world.
8.The Lord hath sworn by his right hand and by his strong arm, Surely I wil no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies, and surely the sons of the strangers shal not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured.
9.But they that have gathered it, shal eat it, & praise the Lord, & the gatherers thereof shal drink it in the courts of my Sanctuary.
10.iGo through, go through the gates: prepare you the way for the people: cast up, cast up the way, and gather out the stones and set up a standart for the people.
11.Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the ends of the world: mtel the daughter Zión, Behold, thy Saviour commeth: behold, his wages nis with him, and his work is before him.
12.And they shal call them, The holie people, the redeemed of the Lord, and thou shalt be named, A ocity sought out and not forsaken.

Notes

1-a.
The Prophet says that he will never cease to declare unto the people the good tidings of their deliverance.
1-b.
Till they have full deliverance: and this the Prophet speaks to encour- age all other ministers to the setting forth of God’s mercies toward his Church..
2-c.
You shall have a more excellent fame then you have had hitherto.
3-d.
He shall esteem you as dear and precious as a King does his crown.
4-^.
Or, my delight in her,
4-^-1.
Or, married.
4-e.
You shall no more be contemned as a woman forsaken of her husband.
4-f.
That it may be replenished with children.
5-g.
Forasmuch as they confess one faith and religion with you, they are in the same bond of marriage with you: and they are called the children of the Church, inasmuch as Christ makes her plentiful to bring forth children unto him.
6-h.
Prophets, pastors, and ministers.
6-i.
He exhorts the ministers never to cease to call upon God by prayer for the deliverance of his Church and to teach others to do the same.
7-k.
For the restoration whereof all the world shall praise him.
10-l.
Signifying that great number that should come to the Church, and what means he would prepare for the restitution of the same, as Ch. 57.14.
11-m.
You Prophets & ministers show the people of this their deliverance which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, Zec, 9.9, Mat.21.5.
11-n.
He shall have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as Ch. 40.10.
12-o.
That is, one over whom God has had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.