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In the gates, i.e. in the great assemblies, which were usually in the gates. Compare Pro_31:31 Isa_3:26. These gates he elegantly opposeth to the former, and declareth that if he be brought off them, he will go into these.
Of the daughter of Zion; either,
1. Of Jerusalem, so called also Isa_1:8 Zec_9:9, because at this time it was subject to Zion; which at this time was the seat of the king’s palace, and of the ark. For cities or towns belonging or subject unto any metropolis are commonly called its daughters, as Jos_15:45 2Ch_13:19 Psa_48:11; as the chief cities are called mothers, as 2Sa_20:19 Gal_4:26. Or,
2. Of the people who live in, or belong to, or meet together for civil and religious matters in Zion. For cities are as it were mothers to their people, giving them birth and breeding, and therefore the people are commonly called their daughters. So the names of the daughters of Egypt, Jer_46:11, and of Edom, Lam_4:21,22, and of Tyre, Psa_45:12, and of Babel, Psa_137:8, and of Jerusalem, Lam_2:13,15 Mic 4:8, are put for the people of those places.
I will rejoice, to wit, with spiritual joy and thanksgiving; else it were no fit motive to be used to God in prayer.