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.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.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.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.
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… it's one of the verses I've soaked in a lot Isaiah 62 5 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 so John Owen he's a Puritan theologian from the 1600s he wrote a book called Communion with the Triune God he talks about this verse he says that for a married man a bridegroom there is no height of ecstasy Like he feels that on the day he gets married, he unites his life with his wife. Then he says, that is how God feels about his people every day. He says, God's heart is glad in us without sorrow. And every day while we live is his wedding day. That sounds so flowery to me. Until I realize it's in a thick 400 page theological tome on the Trinity. Do you believe this? This word straight from God, saying to all who are in Christ, I rejoice over you. …
Scripture makes much of this joy. Back in Isaiah 62.5 it says, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride in a wedding, and that's got to be the most joyful human event, as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you. Or Jeremiah 32.41, and I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and with all my soul." God is fully involved in joy and rejoicing over the salvation of a sinner. That's His enterprise in the world. Once God is seeking a sinner, the sinner will respond. And that's why there are verses like Proverbs 8, 17, those who diligently seek Me will find Me. When God begins to seek you, you respond by seeking Him. Or Isaiah 55, 6, seek the Lord while He may be found. As He begins to seek for you and awaken the heart of the sinner, the sinner responds by seeking Him in return. And the promise of Matthew 7, 7 is, seek and you shall find. If God comes seeking for you, you will also seek and you will find, but not left to yourself. And as far as religion goes, the assumption in religion is you take yourself to God by your religious deeds, moral deeds, some level of righteousness or quality of life or goodness. …
Isa. lxii. 4, 5. Thy land shall be married. 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. In the midst of many blessed promises that God makes to his church—in this and the preceding and following chapters—of advancement to a state of great peace, comfort, honor, and joy, after long-continued affliction, we have the sum of all contained in these two verses. In the fourth verse God says to his church, “Thou shalt no more be termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land, Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. ” When it is said, “Thy land shall be married,” we are to understand, “the body of thy people, thy whole race,” the land—by a metonymy, very usual in Scripture—being put for the people that inhabit the land.—The fifth verse explains how this should be accomplished in two things, viz. in being married to her sons, and married to her God. …