What Does Isaiah 66:10 Mean in the King James?
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The people mourning for Jerusalem are called to rejoice with her, placing grief inside the circle of shared joy.
THE MEANING
Your grief for what is wounded does not place you outside its joy. Love, mourning, and rejoicing gather together around Jerusalem, whose name carries the promise of wholeness. Those who grieve for her rejoice with her.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that mourning puts you outside joy is undone: the mourners for Jerusalem are expressly included in her rejoicing.
THE ROOT
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם
Yerushalayim
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
To be whole or complete; to bring to wholeness.
The name Jerusalem carries shalom, wholeness, and the verse gathers both her lovers and her mourners around her. Her joy is shared wholeness that can hold grief without erasing it.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being
שָׁלוֹם
This is the wholeness carried in Jerusalem’s name and the shared joy surrounding her.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
It shows that the joy in this verse gathers people around wholeness, even while they mourn.
שִׂישׂוּ
sisu
GROWS FROM
שׂושׂ
To exult, rejoice.
“rejoice for joy” in this verse is sisu. The verse pairs a command to rejoice with a noun from the same root: “rejoice with rejoicing.” The repeated root makes joy abundant and shared with Jerusalem, rather than merely an end to mourning.
ALSO GROWS
sisu: Rejoice, exult
שִׂישׂוּ
This is the call to share Jerusalem’s joy.
masos: Rejoicing, joy
מָשׂוֹשׂ
The same root turns rejoicing into the very substance of the joy shared with her.
THE PATTERN
Grief for what is loved can remain present within a shared movement toward rejoicing.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Psalm 122 places shalom, wholeness, beside Jerusalem’s name and echoes Isaiah’s words about those who love her. Here, both her lovers and her mourners are gathered into rejoicing around the wholeness her name carries.
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