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10 Go through, go through the gates!
    Prepare the way of the people!
Build up, build up the highway!
    Gather out the stones!
    Lift up a banner for the peoples.
11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth,
    “Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ‘Behold, your salvation comes!
Behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him!’”
12 They will call them “The Holy People,
    Yahweh’s Redeemed”.
You will be called “Sought Out,
    A City Not Forsaken”.

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The Coming of God to Reign

10 “Pass through[a] the gates!
    prepare the way for the people!
Build up! Build up the highway!
    Clear it of stumbling stones,[b]
        speak among the peoples.[c]
11 Here is the Lord!
    Proclaim[d] to the ends[e] of the earth,
say to the inhabitants[f] of Zion:
    ‘See, your salvation is coming!
See, his reward is with him,
    and his recompenses are[g] before him.’
12 People will call them, ‘The Holy People,’
    ‘The Redeemed of the Lord’;
and they will call you,[h] ‘Sought After,’
    ‘The City Not Deserted.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 62:10 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT read Pass through! Pass through
  2. Isaiah 62:10 So 1QIsaa; cf. Isa 8:14; 1QIsab MT LXX read of stones
  3. Isaiah 62:10 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read raise a banner over the peoples
  4. Isaiah 62:11 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read See, the Lord has proclaimed
  5. Isaiah 62:11 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read end
  6. Isaiah 62:11 Lit. daughter
  7. Isaiah 62:11 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read recompense is; 1QIsab MT LXX read work is
  8. Isaiah 62:12 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read you will be called