What Does Isaiah 62:9 Mean?
But those who have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and those who have brought it together shall drink it in my set-apart courts.
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King James Version
But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.THE KEY
The meal itself belongs inside God’s courts: what is gathered is eaten and drunk there, with praise rising alongside it.
THE MEANING
The fruit you gather reaches its purpose when it becomes food you receive and drink you enjoy in God’s set-apart presence. Praise is not separate from this provision; it rises within the meal. The verse holds nourishment, sacredness, and praise in one scene.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that what is sacred must be separated from bodily pleasure: the verse places eating and drinking inside God’s set-apart courts, with praise joined to them.
THE ROOT
מְקַבְּצָיו
meqabbetsav
GROWS FROM
קבץ
q-b-ts
Gather, collect, bring into a group.
“brought it together” in this verse is meqabbetsav. The word for bringing the produce together shares its root with a word used for gathering people. The verse lets the same act of gathering carry both provision and belonging: what is collected becomes food in God’s courts.
ALSO GROWS
qavats: Gather or collect.
קָבַץ
This is the verb behind the verse’s image of bringing the produce together.
qibbuts: A gathering or collection.
קִבּוּץ
This noun keeps the root’s sense of many things brought into one group.
קָדְשִׁי
qodshi
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
Set apart, mark as distinct.
“set-apart” in this verse is qodshi. The courts are defined by being set apart for God. The gathered food is not outside that sacred space; eating and drinking take place within it.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
This adjective describes what is distinct for God, the quality named by “my holiness.”
qiddesh: Set apart or consecrate.
קִדֵּשׁ
This verb shows the action of marking something as belonging to a distinct purpose.
וְהִלְלוּ
ve-hillelu
GROWS FROM
הלל
h-l-l
Praise or celebrate aloud.
Praise follows eating in the verse’s sequence, joining voiced celebration to material provision. The meal and praise appear in the same courts, as one scene.
ALSO GROWS
hallelu-yah: Praise Yah.
הַלְלוּיָהּ
This familiar call to praise shares the root used for praising the LORD here.
tehillah: Praise or a song of praise.
תְּהִלָּה
This noun gives praise a voiced form, a fitting branch of the action in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Provision reaches wholeness when what is gathered becomes nourishment in God’s presence, with praise rising from the meal.
And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you stretch out your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.And they, holding fast day by day with one passion in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, took their food with gladness and singleness of heart. Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the assembly each day those who were being delivered.THE THREAD
The Lord GOD, who gathers the driven ones of Israel, says, Yet I will gather others to him, beside those already gathered to him.“Brought it together” in Isaiah 62:9 and “gathereth” and “gathered” here share the root קבץ (q-b-ts), meaning to gather or collect. In one verse it gathers produce; in the other, people, joining provision and belonging through the same word.
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