Isaiah 62:12 - Exposition

They shall call them ; or, men shall call them , equivalent to "they shall be called." The holy people . The Persians in some degree recognized this character in the Israelites ( Ezra 1:2 , Ezra 1:3 ; Ezra 6:8-12 : Ezra 7:12-26 ). So did Alexander, according to Josephus. The Romans, on the contrary, regarded them as the votaries of a degrading superstition. Since the Roman conquest, they have been almost universally despised. Perhaps the prophecy may be considered to still await its complete fulfilment. Thou shalt be called. "Thou" refers to Zion or Jerusalem. She should be called Sought out— i.e. a special object of God's care—and A city not for-saken—the very opposite of her former name (verse 4), which was "Forsaken." All the conditions of her former existence would be altered, nay, reversed, in the future.