Isaiah 62:6-9
New English Translation
6 I[a] post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
they should keep praying all day and all night.[b]
You who pray to[c] the Lord, don’t be silent!
7 Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem,[d]
until he makes Jerusalem the pride[e] of the earth.
8 The Lord swears an oath by his right hand,
by his strong arm:[f]
“I will never again give your grain
to your enemies as food,
and foreigners will not drink your wine,
which you worked hard to produce.
9 But those who harvest the grain[g] will eat it,
and will praise the Lord.
Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine[h]
in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:6 sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.
- Isaiah 62:6 tn Heb “all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.” The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord’s intervention and restoration of the city.
- Isaiah 62:6 tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”
- Isaiah 62:7 tn “Jerusalem” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; note the following line.
- Isaiah 62:7 tn Heb “[the object of] praise.”
- Isaiah 62:8 tn The Lord’s right hand and strong arm here symbolize his power and remind the audience that his might guarantees the fulfillment of the following promise.
- Isaiah 62:9 tn Heb “it,” the grain mentioned in v. 8a.
- Isaiah 62:9 tn Heb “and those who gather it will drink it.” The masculine singular pronominal suffixes attached to “gather” and “drink” refer back to the masculine noun תִּירוֹשׁ (tirosh, “wine”) in v. 8b.
Isaiah 62:6-9
American Standard Version
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that are Jehovah’s remembrancers, [a]take ye no rest, 7 and give him no [b]rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored: 9 but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Isaiah 62:6 Or, keep not silence
- Isaiah 62:7 Hebrew silence.
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