Isaiah 62:6

62:6 I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

they should keep praying all day and all night.

You who pray to the Lord, don’t be silent!

Isaiah 64:12

64:12 In light of all this, how can you still hold back, Lord?

How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

Isaiah 65:6

65:6 Look, I have decreed:

I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;

I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,


sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.

tn Heb “all day and all night continually they do not keep silent.” The following lines suggest that they pray for the Lord’s intervention and restoration of the city.

tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”

tn Heb “because of these”; KJV, ASV “for these things.”

tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”

tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”