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10 Pass through the gates! Pass through the gates!
    Prepare the way for the people to travel on.
Build up the road! Make it strong!
    Remove the stones!
Lift up a flag,
    so that the nations can see the way to go.

11 Look! The Lord has this message for the whole earth:

‘Say to the people of Zion,
    “Look! Your Saviour is coming!
Look again! He is bringing his gifts with him.
    He brings the prize that he has won.” ’[a]
12 Their name will be ‘God's holy People’,
    and ‘The People that the Lord has redeemed’.
And Jerusalem's name will be ‘The City where people are happy’,
    and ‘The City that is full of people’.

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Footnotes

  1. 62:11 The people that God brings back to Jerusalem from exile are like his prize that he has won in battle. See Isaiah 40:10.