10 [a]Go through, go through the gates: prepare you the way for the people: cast up, cast up the way, and gather out the stones, and set up a standard for the people.

11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the ends of the world, [b]tell the daughter Zion, Behold, thy Savior cometh: Behold, his wages is with him, and [c]his work is before him.

12 And they shall call them, The holy people, the redeemed of the Lord, and thou shalt be named, A [d]city sought out and not forsaken.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 62:10 Signifying the great number that should come to the Church, and what means he would prepare for the restitution of the same, as Isa. 57:14.
  2. Isaiah 62:11 Ye Prophets and Ministers show the people of this their deliverance: which was chiefly meant of our salvation by Christ, Zech. 9:9; Matt. 21:5.
  3. Isaiah 62:11 He shall have all power to bring his purpose to pass, as Isa. 40:10.
  4. Isaiah 62:12 That is, one over whom God hath had a singular care to recover her when she was lost.

10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(A)
    Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(B)
    Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(C) for the nations.

11 The Lord has made proclamation
    to the ends of the earth:(D)
“Say to Daughter Zion,(E)
    ‘See, your Savior comes!(F)
See, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense accompanies him.’”(G)
12 They will be called(H) the Holy People,(I)
    the Redeemed(J) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
    the City No Longer Deserted.(K)

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