Yesaya 62:6

62:6 I ¹  post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;

they should keep praying all day and all night. ² 

You who pray to ³  the Lord, don’t be silent!

Yesaya 63:12

63:12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, ⁴ 

who divided the water before them,

gaining for himself a lasting reputation, ⁵ 

[62:6]  ¹ sn The speaker here is probably the prophet.

[62:6]  ² 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.

[62:6]  ³ tn Or “invoke”; NIV “call on”; NASB, NRSV “remind.”

[63:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “who caused to go at the right hand of Moses the arm of his splendor.”

[63:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “making for himself a lasting name.”