Address of the returning people to the gates of Jerusalem (type of the heavenly city, Heb 12:22); (Psa 24:7, Psa 24:9; Psa 118:19). Antitypically (Rev 22:14; Rev 21:25, Rev 21:27).
righteous nation - that had not apostatized during the captivity. Horsley translates, “The nation of the Just One,” namely, the Jews.