Like Brightness

Yahweh’s Servant will rejoice and won’t go silent until:

A. Goes forth

B. as brightness

C. her [Zion’s] righteousness

C’. and her salvation (yeshu’a)

B’. as a torch

A’. burns.

Zion’s righteousness and rescue will be light flashing into her darkness, like the brightness (nogah) of Yahweh (2 Samuel 22:13; Habakkuk 3:4, 11), which is like the sunrise (Proverbs 4:18) and the stars (Joel 2:10; 3:15). Zion’s righteousness will be like the brightness of Yahweh’s glory-cloud (Ezekiel 1:4, 13; 27-28), shining to produce a rainbow of covenant promise (Ezekiel 1:27-28; cf. 2 Samuel 23:4). 

Her rescue will be like the torch (lappiyd) that passed through the pieces of Abram’s sacrifice (Genesis 15:17) and the lightning that settled on Sinai (Exodus 20:18), like the torchlight that dances among the living creatures in the cloud of Yahweh (Ezekiel 1:13).

If the righteousness and salvation of Israel is like that, it’s hard to escape the sense that Yahweh Himself must somehow be her righteousness and salvation in person. It’s hard to see how Yahweh’s promise might be fulfilled without the personification of Zedek and Yeshua.