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Isaiah
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For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp. See also: Isaiah 62:6-7Proverbs 4:18Psalms 102:13-16The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which the LORD’s mouth will name. See also: Isaiah 62:12Revelation 2:17Isaiah 65:15You will also be a crown of beauty in the LORD’s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand. See also: Isaiah 28:5Zechariah 9:161 Thessalonians 2:19You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD delights in you, and your land will be married. See also: Zephaniah 3:17Hosea 2:19-20Isaiah 62:12For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you. See also: Isaiah 65:19Isaiah 62:4Hebrews 12:2I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest, See also: Isaiah 52:8Ezekiel 3:17-21Psalms 134:1-2and give him no rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise on the earth. See also: Zephaniah 3:19-20Jeremiah 33:9Isaiah 60:18The LORD has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored, See also: Isaiah 65:21-23Judges 6:3-6Deuteronomy 28:33but those who have harvested it will eat it, and praise the LORD. Those who have gathered it will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.” See also: Deuteronomy 16:11Deuteronomy 12:12Deuteronomy 12:7Go 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. See also: Isaiah 57:14Isaiah 40:3Hebrews 12:13Behold, the LORD 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!’” See also: Zechariah 9:9Matthew 21:5John 12:15They will call them “The Holy People, The LORD’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”. See also: 1 Peter 2:9Deuteronomy 26:19Isaiah 62:4
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 62:1
Ver. 1. Rest, as long as God grants me life, or till I behold the Saviour; or Cyrus, the figure of Christ. C. --- True preachers will not be silent on account of any threats, but will labour for the Church. 2 Tim. ii. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 62:2
Ver. 2. One. No profane historian mentions what Cyrus did for the Jews; but all the world knows how much Christ has favoured his Church. C. --- Name. Thou shalt be no longer the rebellious Jerusalem, but the spouse and chosen people, the Church of Christ. S. Ignat. ad Magnes. S. Jer.
↑ 2Isaiah 62:3
Ver. 3. Hand. Chal. "before." Heb. "by the protection."
↑ 3Isaiah 62:4
Ver. 4. Forsaken. Yet the synagogue was again rejected, at the death of Christ.
The promises naturally relate to his Church. C. --- Inhabited. Prot. retain the Heb. words Chephtsi-bah, "my delight in her," and Beulah, (marg.) "married."
H.
↑ 4Isaiah 62:5
Ver. 5. Dwell. Heb. "marry." They shall be attached to their country. --- Thee. He shall love thee as a bridegroom does one whom he has lately married. Christ never abandons his virgin spouse. C. --- Isaias speaks of some state of the Jews which has not yet taken place. Houbigant.
↑ 5Isaiah 62:6
Ver. 6. Watchmen; priests and prophets, (Mat. ii. 1. Ps. cxxxiii. 2. C.) or angels.
S. Jer. S. Bern.
--- The synagogue has long been destitute of guides, but the Catholic Church has an uninterrupted succession of watchful pastors. --- Mindful whose duty it is to remind him of his promises, and to recite the Church office. C. --- Heb.
mazcirim, monitors. 2 K. viii. 16. H. --- In these faithful watchman the Church is always visible. W.
↑ 6Isaiah 62:8
Ver. 8. Hand; inviolably. Deut. xxxii. 40. The Persians deemed this oath most sacred. C. ---
Darius just expiring, said to Polycrates, "By thee I give this right hand to Alexander," (Plut.) that he may revenge my death. --- Wine. The Church cannot be deprived of her faith or of her God.
↑ 8Isaiah 62:10
Ver. 10. People, that they may return to Judea, and be converted to Christ. C.
↑ 10Isaiah 62:11
Ver. 11. Work the redemption of mankind. H. --- Though Cyrus was a figure of Christ, he was as much beneath him as earth is below heaven. Zac. ix. 9. C.
↑ 11License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses