Come to Zion

In Isaiah 35, the prophet offers a vision of the glory of God's people as a counterpoint to the final judgment of the Lord's enemies, described in Isaiah 34. Although Isaiah frequently uses "Zion" to describe the eschatological community of God's people, he doesn't explicitly employ that term until the very end of the chapter, in verse 10. In terms of literary structuring, Zion may be reserved to the end because that city is our eschatological goal.