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New International Version
As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

New Living Translation
Your children will commit themselves to you, O Jerusalem, just as a young man commits himself to his bride. Then God will rejoice over you as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.

English Standard Version
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Berean Standard Bible
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

King James Bible
Foras a young man marrieth a virgin,so shall thy sons marry thee: andas the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride,so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

New King James Version
Foras a young man marries a virgin,So shall your sons marry you; Andas the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,So shall your God rejoice over you.

New American Standard Bible
Foras a young man marries a virgin,So your sons will marry you; Andas the groom rejoices over the bride,So your God will rejoice over you.

NASB 1995
For as a young man marries a virgin, So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you.

NASB 1977
Foras a young man marries a virgin,So your sons will marry you; Andas the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,So your God will rejoice over you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Foras a young man marries a virgin,So your sons will marry you; Andas the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,So your God will rejoice over you.

Amplified Bible
For as a young man marries a virgin [O Jerusalem], So your sons will marry you; And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over you.

Christian Standard Bible
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a groom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a groom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

American Standard Version
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Contemporary English Version
Your people will take the land, just as a young man takes a bride. The LORD will be pleased because of you, just as a husband is pleased with his bride.

English Revised Version
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As a young man marries a woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Good News Translation
Like a young man taking a virgin as his bride, He who formed you will marry you. As a groom is delighted with his bride, So your God will delight in you.

International Standard Version
"For just as a young man marries a maiden, so your sons will marry you; and just as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

NET Bible
As a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

New Heart English Bible
For just as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so will thy God rejoice over thee.

Majority Text Translations

Majority Standard Bible
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

World English Bible
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
For a young man marries a virgin, "" Your builders marry you, "" With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, "" Your God rejoices over you.

Young's Literal Translation
For a young man doth marry a virgin, Thy Builders do marry thee, With the joy of a bridegroom over a bride, Rejoice over thee doth thy God.

Smith's Literal Translation
As a young man will marry a virgin, thy sons shall marry thee: and the bridegroom rejoicing over the bride, thy God will rejoice over thee.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the young man shall dwell with the virgin, and thy children shall dwell in thee. And the bridegroom shall rejoice over the bride, and thy God shall rejoice over thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For the young man will live with the virgin, and your children will live with you. And the groom will rejoice over the bride, and your God will rejoice over you.

New American Bible
For as a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; And as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.

New Revised Standard Version
For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your builder marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
For as a young man husbands a virgin, so shall your sons husband you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because like a young man marries a virgin girl, in this way your sons shall marry you, and as a bridegroom rejoices with a bride, your God shall rejoice in you

OT Translations

JPS Tanakh 1917
For as a young man espouseth a virgin, So shall thy sons espouse thee; And as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, So shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And as a young man lives with a virgin, so shall thy sons dwell inthee: and it shall come to passthat as a bridegroom will rejoice over a bride, so will the Lord rejoice over thee.

Additional Translations ...

Audio Bible

Context

Zion's Salvation and New Name
…4No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.5For as a young man marries a young woman,so your sons will marry you;and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,so your God will rejoice over you.6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,…

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Cross References

Revelation 19:7-9
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. / She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints. / Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

Ephesians 5:25-32
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her / to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, / and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. ...

Hosea 2:19-20
So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion. / And I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.”

Matthew 25:1-13
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. / Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. / The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil. ...

Jeremiah 33:11
the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

Song of Solomon 3:11
Come out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding—the day of his heart’s rejoicing.

2 Corinthians 11:2
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

John 3:29
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

Psalm 45:10-15
Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house, / and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord. / The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor. ...

Matthew 22:1-14
Once again, Jesus spoke to them in parables: / “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. / He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come. ...

Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Isaiah 54:5
For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Jeremiah 7:34
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

Treasury of Scripture

For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

shall thy sons

Isaiah 49:18-22
Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together,and come to thee.As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind themon thee, as a bridedoeth…

Psalm 45:11-16
So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for heis thy Lord; and worship thou him…

Jeremiah 32:41
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

as the bridegroom rejoiceth.

Isaiah 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Isaiah 65:19
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

Song of Solomon 3:11
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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Isaiah 62

1.The fervent desire of the prophet to confirm the church in God's promises.
6.The office of the ministers in preaching the Gospel
10.And preparing the people thereto

Study Bible

Book ◦ Chapter

For as a young man marries a young woman
This phrase draws on the imagery of marriage, a common biblical metaphor for the covenant relationship between God and His people. In ancient Israel, marriage was a significant social institution, symbolizing commitment, unity, and love. The comparison to a young man marrying a young woman emphasizes the freshness, vitality, and joy associated with a new marriage. This reflects the renewal and restoration God promises to His people, suggesting a new beginning and a deep, personal relationship.

so your sons will marry you
Here, the imagery shifts to the relationship between the people of Israel and their land, often personified as a woman. The phrase suggests a return and commitment to the land, akin to a marriage. Historically, the Israelites faced exile and displacement, and this promise of return signifies restoration and a renewed bond with their homeland. The use of "sons" indicates future generations, emphasizing continuity and the fulfillment of God's promises to His people.

and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride
The joy of a bridegroom is a powerful image of delight and celebration. In biblical times, weddings were significant communal events, filled with joy and festivity. This phrase highlights the deep affection and pleasure God takes in His people. It underscores the personal and relational nature of God's covenant, portraying Him not as a distant deity but as one who is intimately involved and rejoices in His relationship with His people.

so your God will rejoice over you
This concluding phrase assures the people of God's unwavering love and delight in them. It echoes themes found throughout Scripture, such as inZephaniah 3:17, where God is described as rejoicing over His people with singing. This rejoicing signifies approval, acceptance, and a profound relational bond. It also points to the ultimate fulfillment of God's promises in the eschatological future, where His people will experience complete restoration and joy in His presence.

Persons / Places / Events

1.Isaiah
A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book bearing his name. He prophesied to the Kingdom of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline, calling the people back to faithfulness to God.

2.Zion/Jerusalem
Often used interchangeably, Zion refers to the city of Jerusalem, the spiritual and political center of Israel. InIsaiah 62, Zion is depicted as a bride, symbolizing the intimate and covenantal relationship between God and His people.

3.The Bridegroom
InIsaiah 62:5, the bridegroom represents God, who rejoices over His people as a groom rejoices over his bride. This imagery highlights the deep love and commitment God has for His covenant people.

4.The Bride
Symbolizing the people of God, the bride in this passage represents the community of believers who are cherished and loved by God.

5.Marriage
The event of marriage is used metaphorically to describe the covenant relationship between God and His people, emphasizing themes of love, joy, and commitment.

Teaching Points

God's Joy Over His People
Just as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, God takes immense joy in His people. This should encourage believers to find their identity and worth in being loved by God.

Covenantal Relationship
The marriage metaphor underscores the covenantal nature of our relationship with God. Believers are called to faithfulness and commitment, reflecting the steadfast love God shows us.

Transformation and Renewal
The imagery of marriage signifies transformation. As believers, we are continually being renewed and prepared for our ultimate union with Christ.

Intimacy with God
The passage invites believers to pursue a deeper, more intimate relationship with God, akin to the closeness shared between a bride and groom.

Hope and Future Glory
Isaiah 62:5 points to a future hope where God's people will fully experience His joy and love. This hope should inspire perseverance and faithfulness in the present.

Bible Study Questions and Answers

1.What is the meaning of Isaiah 62:5?

2.How does Isaiah 62:5 illustrate God's joy in His relationship with believers?

3.What parallels exist between marriage in Isaiah 62:5 and Christ's relationship with the Church?

4.How can believers reflect God's delight in them in their daily lives?

5.How does Isaiah 62:5 connect with Ephesians 5:25-27 about Christ's love?

6.In what ways can we prepare for the "bridegroom" as described in Isaiah 62:5?

7.What does Isaiah 62:5 reveal about God's relationship with His people?

8.How does Isaiah 62:5 symbolize the union between God and Israel?

9.In what ways does Isaiah 62:5 reflect the theme of divine joy?

10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 62?

11.What is the main theme of "The Bridegroom"?

12.How can the description of the bride’s flawless perfection in Song of Solomon 4:7 align with human reality, given our understanding of human imperfection?

13.What is the biblical definition of betrothal?

14.Isaiah 58:5 - Why emphasize a 'true fast' if God mandated so many ritual practices in earlier laws, suggesting a potential conflict between ceremony and genuine devotion?

What Does Isaiah 62:5 Mean

For as a young man marries a young woman

“ For as a young man marries a young woman ” (Isaiah 62:5a) paints a picture every listener could grasp—fresh, wholehearted devotion.

• Marriage is a covenant, not a casual arrangement (Genesis 2:24;Malachi 2:14).

• It is exclusive—one man, one woman—mirroring the exclusivity God expects from His people (Exodus 20:3).

• It is joyful and forward-looking, just as Zion’s future is bright despite her past desolation (Isaiah 54:6–8).

The verse assures Israel that God’s coming relationship with her will be as real and binding as the most vibrant wedding celebration.

so your sons will marry you

“ so your sons will marry you ” (Isaiah 62:5b) promises full, familial restoration.

• “Sons” who had been scattered (Isaiah 60:4) will return and re-attach themselves to Zion as firmly as a groom unites with his bride.

• The city becomes both mother and bride—showing complete belonging and mutual commitment (Isaiah 49:18).

• God is pledging not only spiritual renewal but a literal, populated Jerusalem filled with devoted inhabitants (Jeremiah 32:41).

and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride

“ and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride ” (Isaiah 62:5c) highlights exuberant delight.

• Picture wedding-day laughter, music, and dancing—unrestrained celebration (Isaiah 61:10).

• John the Baptist echoed this imagery when he called Jesus “the bridegroom” who owns the joy of the wedding (John 3:29).

• God is not a distant monarch but a beaming Groom bursting with affection (Zephaniah 3:17).

so your God will rejoice over you

“ so your God will rejoice over you ” (Isaiah 62:5d) seals the comparison with divine certainty.

• The same God who once disciplined Zion will now “rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people” (Isaiah 65:19).

• His delight is personal—He calls the city “My Delight Is in Her” (Isaiah 62:4).

• This prophecy reaches its fullest expression in the New Jerusalem where “the dwelling place of God is with men” (Revelation 21:2–3).

• God’s rejoicing is unending, grounded in an everlasting covenant secured by His own faithfulness (Jeremiah 32:40).

summary

Isaiah 62:5 assures Zion that her future relationship with the LORD will be as real, joyful, and binding as the happiest human marriage. Her scattered children will return in covenant loyalty, and God Himself will exult over her with the delighted heart of a bridegroom. The verse anchors hope in God’s unbreakable promise of restoration, belonging, and eternal joy.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(5)So shall thy sons marry thee . . .--The image of the bride is presented under another aspect. The people of a country are, in their collective unity, as the bridegroom, and the country is as the bride. They are bound, as the husband is to the wife, to cherish and protect it, to be ready to live and die for it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. -As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride. There is a double employment of the analogy with marriage here. The land, Judaea, personified as a female, is married to her sons, or her people, regarded (in this connection) as a male. The people, regarded as a female ("the virgin daughter of Zion,"Isaiah 37:22) is also married to Jehovah, and recognizes him as her Bridegroom (Comp.Isaiah 54:5). As Bridegroom, God calls his bride "Hephzi-bah" - "my delight is in her."

Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

For
כִּֽי־(kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588:A relative conjunction

as a young man
בָּחוּר֙(bā·ḥūr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 970:Selected, a youth

marries
יִבְעַ֤ל(yiḇ·‘al)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1166:To be master, to marry

a young woman,
בְּתוּלָ֔ה(bə·ṯū·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1330:A virgin, sometimes, a bride

so your sons
בָּנָ֑יִךְ(bā·nā·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1121:A son

will marry you;
יִבְעָל֖וּךְ(yiḇ·‘ā·lūḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1166:To be master, to marry

and as a groom
חָתָן֙(ḥā·ṯān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2860:A relative by marriage, a circumcised child

rejoices
וּמְשׂ֤וֹשׂ(ū·mə·śō·wś)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4885:Exultation, rejoicing

over
עַל־(‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921:Above, over, upon, against

his bride,
כַּלָּ֔ה(kal·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3618:Daughter-in-law, bride

so your God
אֱלֹהָֽיִךְ׃(’ĕ·lō·hā·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 430:gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will rejoice
יָשִׂ֥ישׂ(yā·śîś)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7797:To be bright, cheerful

over you.
עָלַ֖יִךְ(‘ā·la·yiḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5921:Above, over, upon, against

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