Isaiah 62:3

"Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land be termed any more Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee."

There is no indication whatever that the prophecy professes in these verses to reveal the New Name, which, as we have seen, would not be revealed until the times of Messiah when Gentiles became followers of Christ. Rather, the subject is the glory and honor and happiness that shall mark the righteousness and redemption to be received in the future. As Cheyne said, "For the present, Jehovah reserves the mystic name of the New Jerusalem to himself."[5]

"A crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah ..." (Isaiah 62:3). Crowns are not worn on the hand, and some have questioned the appropriateness of this statement; "But with no propriety whatever could it be said that the church is a crown of beauty `on the head' of Jehovah."[6] The form of the metaphor honors that truth.

"So shall thy sons marry thee ..." (Isaiah 62:5). This impossible comparison of sons marrying their own mother is resolved when it is understood that the "sons of Israel, their mother" will not at all marry the Old Israel, but the New Israel which is Christ. There is a prediction here of that sacred relationship between Christ and his holy Bride, the Church.