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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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10 Come through! Come through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people!
Build it—Build the roadway!
Remove the stones.
Lift a signal flag for the nations.
11 Look, the Lord announces to the entire earth:[a]
“Say to Daughter Zion,
‘Look, your deliverer comes!
Look, his reward is with him,
and his reward goes before him!’”[b]
12 They will be called, “The Holy People,
the Ones Protected[c] by the Lord.”
You will be called, “Sought After,
City Not Abandoned.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 62:11 tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so NASB, NRSV).
  2. Isaiah 62:11 sn As v. 12 indicates, the returning exiles are the Lord’s reward/prize. See also 40:10 and the note there.
  3. Isaiah 62:12 tn Or “the redeemed of the Lord” (KJV, NAB).