Is. 61, 62 [The Message]

I remember references to Beulah land when I was a kid growing up in a Pentecostal church. We sang hymns about it. What does it mean?

• In Biblical Hebrew Beulah (בְּעוּלָ֑ה‎ bə‘ūlāh) means “married to the land” and is applied to the land that the people of Israel will marry. The context is the Babylonian Exile, in which the land of Israel became holy to the Jews, their land to which they must return.
• n the Christian allegory ‘Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) by John Bunyan, Beulah Land is a place of peace near the end of the Christian life, on the border of the Celestial City. The River of Death separates Beulah from the New Jerusalem, the city on a hill.

In summary, The Biblical reference to “Beulah Land” is used as symbolism for Israel. Once a desolate and barren land, the Lord commanded future prosperity of Israel by naming the land Beulah.