Spring morning in the Judean hills: terraced fields freshly plowed and green with young grain, vineyards newly tied, a small walled town on the hill, the land tended again.

New heavens and earth

Isaiah 62

What name do you think God calls you?

12 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1–5Zion on trialJudah’s sin, the mountain raised, the vineyard’s song
6Holy, holy, holyIsaiah’s call, in the year King Uzziah died (about 740 BC)
7–12ImmanuelAhaz’s fear, the sign, the Child, the shoot of Jesse
13–23The nations judgedBabylon to Tyre: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
24–27The whole earthThe earth laid waste, and death swallowed up
28–35Woe and a KingEgypt’s help or the LORD’s, and the King in His beauty
36–39Hezekiah’s crisisSennacherib, 701 BC: the prayer, the sickness, the envoys
40–48Comfort My peopleTo the exiles ahead: Cyrus, the idols, the Servant
49–55The Servant and ZionPierced for our transgressions; Zion restored
56–66New heavens and earthA house of prayer, the Anointed One, all things newChapter 62

Zion’s Salvation and New Name

The Servant

Night on the flat walkway on top of Jerusalem’s wall: one blazing torch of pitch-soaked rags on a pole set in the stone, flames streaming in the wind, the dark roofs of the city below.

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,

and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still,

until her righteousness shines like a bright light,

her salvation like a blazing torch.

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The Servant

Nations will see your righteousness,

and all kings your glory.

You will be called by a new name

that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.

The Servant

The Servant

You will be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD,

a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

The Servant

No longer will you be called Forsaken,

nor your land named Desolate;

but you will be called Hephzibah,

and your land Beulah;

for the LORD will take delight in you,

and your land will be His bride.

Isaiah 62:4

The Servant

For as a young man marries a young woman,

so your sons will marry you;

and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

Question

Quick question

In verse 4 the LORD renames Zion and her land. The old names were Forsaken and Desolate.

What does the new name Hephzibah mean (62:4)?

The Servant

Deep night on the wall walkway of Jerusalem: two watchmen in wool cloaks seen from behind, standing apart along the wall, one with a plain staff, a small fire in a clay brazier between them under the first stars.

On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen;

they will never be silent day or night.

The Servant

Isaiah

Isaiah

The LORD has sworn by His right hand

and by His mighty arm:

“Never again will I give your grain

to your enemies for food,

nor will foreigners drink the new wine

for which you have toiled.

For those who harvest grain

will eat it and praise the LORD,

and those who gather grapes

will drink the wine in My holy courts.”

Isaiah

Early morning outside a gate of Jerusalem: men lifting stones off a raised road of packed earth and throwing them aside, a pile of cleared stones, the road running out to the hills, a tall pole with a plain linen banner on a near hilltop.

Go out, go out through the gates;

prepare the way for the people!

Build it up, build up the highway;

clear away the stones;

raise a banner for the nations!

Isaiah

Morning on the road climbing to an open gate of Jerusalem: a small crowd of townspeople standing in the gateway and on the slope, all looking down the empty road toward the east.

Behold, the LORD has proclaimed

to the ends of the earth,

“Say to Daughter Zion:

See, your Savior comes!

Look, His reward is with Him,

and His recompense goes before Him.”

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Isaiah

And they will be called the Holy People,

the Redeemed of The LORD;

and you will be called Sought Out,

A City Not Forsaken.

Zion’s new names

Whiteboard

The LORD renames what loss had named.

Pray

LORD, You do not keep silent over Your people. Where I have been called Forsaken, call me Sought Out. Make me a watchman who gives You no rest in prayer until Your people are the praise of the earth. Amen.

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A verse to carry with you

No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.

Isaiah 62:4

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