The promise that the redeemed will be called the Holy People, Redeemed of YHWH, and Zion will be called Sought Out, a City Not Forsaken, establishes the final identity transformation. The new names consolidate all previous identity-shifts: holy people, redeemed, sought after, not abandoned. The movement from Forsaken (62:4) to Not Forsaken crystallizes the eschatological reversal. The designation as Holy People establishes the entire community as sanctified and set apart. This verse concludes the restoration sequence: all shame is reversed, all identity is renewed, and Zion achieves the full restoration promised from Isaiah 61's opening.

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