Verse 5
Future generations of Israelites would be married to the Promised Land in the sense that they would not leave it. From a different perspective, the Lord Himself would be Israel’s bridegroom and would rejoice over her as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
"In all that Israel was to endure, what a source of comfort God’s pet name for them: ’My-Delight-Is-in-Her’ (Isaiah 62:4) must have been. It is still true today. When circumstances and failure and blighted hopes combine to convince us that our name is ’Forsaken,’ that is the hour to hear the whisper of the Bridegroom to his Bride (cf. 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:27; Revelation 21:2; Revelation 21:9), with the name that it is his alone to give and hers alone to hear." [Note: Oswalt, The Book . . . 40-66, pp. 581-82.]
"The Lord had, as it were, divorced Zion (see Isaiah 54:5-7), but now he will remarry her (Isaiah 62:5)." [Note: Chisholm, Handbook on . . ., p. 131.]
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