God’s Word Translation
Isaiah 62:10
10Go through! Go through the gates! Prepare a way for the people! Build up! Build up the highway! Clear away the stones! Raise a flag for the people!
Isaiah 62:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
- New International Version (NIV)Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people; Build up, Build up the highway! Take out the stones, Lift up a banner for the peoples!
Context of Isaiah 62:10
8The Lord has sworn with his right hand and with his mighty arm, “I will never again let your enemies eat your grain, nor will foreigners drink the new wine which you made.” 9Those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the Lord. Those who gather grapes will drink wine in my holy courtyards. Go through! Go through the gates! Prepare a way for the people! Build up! Build up the highway! Clear away the stones! Raise a flag for the people! 11The Lord has announced to the ends of the earth: “Tell my people Zion, ‘Your Savior is coming. His reward is with him, and the people he has won arrive ahead of him.’ ” 12They will be called Holy People, Those Reclaimed by the Lord, and you will be called Sought After, a City Not Deserted.
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עִבְר֤וּ עִבְרוּ֙ בַּשְּׁעָרִ֔ים פַּנּ֖וּ דֶּ֣רֶךְ הָעָ֑ם סֹ֣לּוּ סֹ֤לּוּ הַֽמְסִלָּה֙ סַקְּל֣וּ מֵאֶ֔בֶן הָרִ֥ימוּ נֵ֖ס עַל־הָעַמִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Go throughעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
- the gatesשַׁ֫עַרsha‛ar · gateH8179
- prepareפָּנָהpânâh · to turnH6437
- ye the wayדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: roadH1870
- of the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- cast upסָלַלsâlal · to buildH5549
- the highwayמְסִלָּהmesillâh · highwayH4546
- gather outסָקַלsâqal · to stoneH5619
- the stonesאֶ֫בֶן'eben · stoneH68
- lift upרוּםrûm · to exaltH7311
- a standardנֵסnês · ensignH5251
Cross-references for Isaiah 62:10
- Isaiah 18:3Look when someone raises a flag on the mountains. Listen when someone blows a ram’s horn, all you inhabitants of the world who live on the earth.
- Isaiah 40:3A voice cries out in the desert: “Clear a way for the Lord. Make a straight highway in the wilderness for our God.
- Isaiah 48:20Leave Babylon; flee from the Babylonians! Shout for joy as you tell it and announce it. Shout it out to the ends of the earth. Say that the Lord has reclaimed his servant Jacob.
- Isaiah 52:11Run away! Run away! Get away from there! Do not touch anything unclean. Get away from it! Make yourselves pure, you Levites who carry the utensils for the Lord’s temple.
- Isaiah 57:14It will be said: “Build a road! Build a road! Prepare the way! Remove every obstacle in the way of my people!”
- Exodus 17:15Moses built an altar and called it The Lord Is My Banner.
- Matthew 22:9Go where the roads leave the city. Invite everyone you find to the wedding.’
- Hebrews 12:13Keep walking along straight paths so that your injured leg won’t get worse. Instead, let it heal.
- Isaiah 11:12He will raise a banner for the nations ⌞to gather around⌟. He will gather the outcasts of Israel and bring together the scattered people of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Isaiah 49:22This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will lift my hand ⌞to signal⌟ the nations. I will raise my flag for the people. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Commentaries on Isaiah 62:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Of the people "For the people" - Before the word העם haam, the people, two MSS. insert יהוה Yehovah ; one MS. adds the same word after; and eight MSS., three ancient, instead of העם haam, have יהוה Yehovah, and so likewise one edition. But though it makes a good sense either way, I believe it to be an interpolation, as the ancient Versions do not favor it. The Septuagint indeed read עמי ammi, my people. - L.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Go through, go through the gates - The connection of this with what goes before is not very apparent, and there has been a great diversity of opinion in regard to it among interpreters. Grotius supposes that it refers to the priests and Levites who are referred to also in the previous verses, and that it is a command for them to enter into the temple. Calvin supposes that it refers to the Christian church, and that the idea is, that the gates of it should…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-12Verses 10-12 Way shall be made for Christ's salvation; all difficulties shall be removed. He brings a reward of comfort and peace with him; but a work of humiliation and reformation before him; and they shall be called, The holy people, and, The redeemed of the Lord. Holiness puts honour and beauty upon any place or person, makes them admired, beloved, and sought after. Many events may have been part fulfilments of this, as earnests of more glorious times…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10highway: See also Isaiah 40:3; 57:14. A banner for all nations to see serves as a signal. It directs foreigners to come to Zion for God's salvation. Earlier, a similar signal called for the nations to attack Judah (Isaiah 5:26).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. What Isaiah in the person of Messiah had engaged in (Is 62:1) unrestingly to seek, and what the watchmen were unrestingly to pray for (Is 62:7), and what Jehovah solemnly promised (Is 62:8, 9), is now to be fulfilled; the Gentile nations are commanded to "go through the gates" (either of their own cities [Rosenmuller] or of Jerusalem [Maurer]), in order to remove all obstacles out of "the way of the people (Israel)" (see on Is 7:14; Is 40:3…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 62
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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