Isaiah 62:6-9

6 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set ¹watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,

7 and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it ²a praise in the earth.

8 The Lord has sworn ³by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give ⁴your grain to be food for your enemies, ⁵and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;

9 but ⁶those who garner it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and ⁷those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary. ” ^[a]

Isaiah 62:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 62

This chapter is a continuation of the prophecy of the glory of the church in the latter day. The prophet expresses his earnest desire for it, and his full assurance of it, Isa 62:1,2 which should lie in a new name, by which she should be called, and in her being a glorious crown and diadem in the hand of the Lord, Isa 62:3,4, in having her sons with her, and the Lord rejoicing over her, Isa 62:5, in having watchmen on her walls, and such as are the Lord's remembrancers in the midst of her, Isa 62:6,7, in plenty of food, Isa 62:8,9, in the coming of the Saviour, and in the gathering of elect Gentiles both to him and her, Isa 62:10-12.

Cross References

• 1. 62:6 ch. 52:8; 56:10
• 2. 62:7 ch. 60:18; [ch. 61:11; Zeph. 3:20]
• 3. 62:8 [Heb. 6:13]
• 4. 62:8 Deut. 28:33; Jer. 5:17
• 5. 62:8 [ch. 65:21, 22]
• 6. 62:9 [Deut. 12:12; 14:23, 26]
• 7. 62:9 [Deut. 12:12; 14:23, 26]

Footnotes

• [a] 62:9 Or 'in my holy courts'