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Isaiah 62

Isa. 62:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have set
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
watchmen
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
upon thy walls
chowmah (Hebrew #2346)
a wall of protection
KJV usage: wall, walled.
Pronounce: kho-maw'
Origin: feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join
, O Jerusalem
Yruwshalaim (Hebrew #3389)
a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of 3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) 3384 and 7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
KJV usage: Jerusalem.
Pronounce: yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im
Origin: rarely Yruwshalayim {yer-oo- shaw-lah'-yim}
, which shall never
tamiyd (Hebrew #8548)
properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice
KJV usage: alway(-s), continual (employment, -ly), daily, ((n-))ever(-more), perpetual.
Pronounce: taw-meed'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to stretch
hold their peace
chashah (Hebrew #2814)
to hush or keep quiet
KJV usage: hold peace, keep silence, be silent, (be) still.
Pronounce: khaw-shaw'
Origin: a primitive root
day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
nor night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
: ye ζthat make mention
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, keep not silence
dmiy (Hebrew #1824)
from 1820; quiet
KJV usage: cutting off, rest, silence.
Pronounce: dem-ee'
Origin: or domiy {dom-ee'}
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or, that are the LORD's remembrancers.

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Ministry on This Verse

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set watchmen.
Isa. 52:8• 8The voice of thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Jehovah bringeth again Zion. (Isa. 52:8)
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Isa. 56:10• 10His watchmen [are] blind, they are all without knowledge; they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. (Isa. 56:10)
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2 Chron. 8:14• 14{i}And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their charges, to praise and serve before the priests, as the duty of every day required; and the doorkeepers by their divisions at every gate: for such was the commandment of David the man of God;{/i} (2 Chron. 8:14)
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Song of Sol. 3:3• 3The watchmen that go about the city found me:{HR}—Have ye seen him whom my soul loveth?— (Song of Sol. 3:3)
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Song of Sol. 5:7• 7The watchmen that go about the city found me,{HR}They smote me, they wounded me;{HR}The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. (Song of Sol. 5:7)
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Jer. 6:17• 17{i}Also I have set watchmen over you: —Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.{/i} (Jer. 6:17)
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Ezek. 3:17‑21• 17{i}Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.{/i}
 18{i}When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.{/i}
 19{i}But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.{/i}
 20{i}And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.{/i}
 21{i}And if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall certainly live, for he hath taken warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.{/i} (Ezek. 3:17‑21)
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Ezek. 33:2‑9• 2Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
 3If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet and warn the people:
 4Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning, if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
 5He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
 6But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
 7So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
 8When I say unto the wicked, Ο wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
 9Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. (Ezek. 33:2‑9)
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1 Cor. 12:28• 28And God set some in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues. (1 Cor. 12:28)
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Eph. 4:11‑12• 11And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
 12for the perfecting of the saints, unto work of ministry, unto edifying of the body of the Christ, (Eph. 4:11‑12)
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Heb. 13:17• 17Obey your leaders, and be submissive, for they watch over your souls, as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this [were] unprofitable for you. (Heb. 13:17)
which.
Isa. 62:1• 1For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp [that] burneth. (Isa. 62:1)
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Psa. 134:1‑2• 1A song of the ascents.{HR}Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah,{HR}That stand in Jehovah's house in the nights.
 2Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary ,{HR}And bless Jehovah. (Psa. 134:1‑2)
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Rev. 4:6‑8• 6and before the throne as a sea of glass like crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind:
 7and the first living creature like a lion, and the second living creature like a calf, and the third living creature had the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature like a flying eagle.
 8And the four living creatures, having each of them six wings, round about and within are full of eyes; and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God the Almighty that was and that is and that is to come. (Rev. 4:6‑8)
make mention of the Lord.
or, are the Lord's remembrancers.
Isa. 43:26• 26Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth [thy cause], that thou mayest be justified. (Isa. 43:26)
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Gen. 32:12• 12And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude. (Gen. 32:12)
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Num. 14:17‑19• 17And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken.
 18Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
 19Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. (Num. 14:17‑19)
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Psa. 74:2,18• 2Remember thine assembly thou hast purchased of old,{HR}Thou hast redeemed [as] rod of thine inheritance,{HR}This mount Zion thou hast dwelt in.
 18Remember this: an enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah,{HR}And a foolish people have despised thy name. (Psa. 74:2,18)
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Acts 10:4,31• 4But he gazing on him and being affrighted, said, What is [it], Lord? And he said to him, Thy prayers and thine alms have gone up for a memorial before God.
 31and says, Cornelius thy prayer is heard, and thine alms had in remembrance before God: (Acts 10:4,31)
keep.
Gen. 32:26• 26And he said, Let me go, for the dawn ariseth. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me. (Gen. 32:26)
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Matt. 15:22‑27• 22and, behold, a Canaanite woman coming out from those borders cried out, saying, Pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is grievously possessed by a demon.
 23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she crieth out after us.
 24But he said in answer, I was not sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.
 25And she came and paid him homage, saying, Lord, help me.
 26But he said in answer, It is not good to take the children's bread and cast [it] to the dogs.
 27But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters. (Matt. 15:22‑27)
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Luke 11:5‑13• 5{i}And{/i} he said to them, Who among you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight and say unto him, Friend, let me have three loaves;
 6since a friend of mine on a journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
 7and he within answering should say, Do not disturb me; the door is already shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up to give [it] thee.
 8I say unto you, although he will not rise up and give [them] to him because he is his friend, because of his shamelessness, at any rate, he will rise up and give him as many as he wanteth.
 9{i}And{/i} I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
 10For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it will be opened.
 11{i}But{/i} of whom of you that is a father shall a son ask bread, and [the father] shall give him a stone? or also a fish, and instead of a fish shall give him a serpent?
 12or if also he shall ask an egg, shall give him a scorpion?
 13If, therefore, ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will the Father who [is] of heaven give [the] Holy Spirit to them that ask him. (Luke 11:5‑13)
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Luke 18:1‑8,39• 1And he spoke also a parable to them, to the purport that they should always pray, and not faint,
 2saying, There was a judge in a city, not fearing God, and not respecting man.
 3And there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary;
 4and he would not for a time; but afterwards he said within himself, If even I fear not God, and respect not man,
 5at any rate because this widow annoys me, I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetual coming completely harass me.
 6And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
 7And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them.
 8I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. But when the Son of man cometh, shall he indeed find faith on the earth?
 39And those in advance rebuked him that he should be silent; but he kept crying much more, Son of David, pity me. (Luke 18:1‑8,39)
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1 Thess. 5:17• 17pray unceasingly; (1 Thess. 5:17)
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Rev. 6:10• 10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on those that dwell on the earth? (Rev. 6:10)
• The forsaken Jerusalem is not forgotten by the Lord. This is expressed by the setting of watchmen on the walls, who are never to hold their peace until deliverance comes. (“Isaiah 62:4-64:3” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jerusalem; all the day and all the night they shall never hold their peace: ye that put Jehovah in remembrancef, keep not silence,

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "think of Jehovah with loud voice."

W. Kelly Translation

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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace all day and all night: ye that put Jehovah in remembrance, take ye no rest,