Yesaya 62:4

62:4 You will no longer be called, “Abandoned,”

and your land will no longer be called “Desolate.”

Indeed, ¹  you will be called “My Delight is in Her,” ² 

and your land “Married.” ³ 

For the Lord will take delight in you,

and your land will be married to him. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ⁵  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ⁶  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ⁷  the most beautiful of all lands.

[62:4]  ¹ tn Or “for”; KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV “but.”

[62:4]  ² tn Hebrew חֶפְצִי־בָהּ (kheftsi-vah), traditionally transliterated “Hephzibah” (so KJV, ASV, NIV).

[62:4]  ³ tn Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bÿ’ulah), traditionally transliterated “Beulah” (so KJV, ASV, NIV).

[62:4]  ⁴ tn That is, the land will be restored to the Lord’s favor and once again enjoy his blessing and protection. To indicate the land’s relationship to the Lord, the words “to him” have been supplied at the end of the clause.

[20:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ⁶ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ⁷ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).