Jehovah opens with His hands stretched out all day to a rebellious house that walks after its own thoughts, sacrificing in gardens, sitting among graves, and pronouncing themselves holier than thou — the precise posture of those who hold form without covenant. Against them He sets a contrast that runs the rest of the chapter: His servants. The cluster-and-new-wine parallelism names the remnant preserved within the corrupt mass for the blessing's sake. A seed comes forth out of Jacob and Judah to inherit the mountains; Sharon and Achor are restored as folds for those who sought Him. The servants eat, drink, sing, and are called by another name — the new name of those who take Christ's name upon them — while the rebellious are numbered to the sword. The new heavens and new earth, the rebuilt Jerusalem where none labour in vain and the wolf feeds with the lamb, is literal Zion under the returned Bridegroom, not allegory. The prayer answered before it is spoken is the covenant condition of that order.
