And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
I will restore thy judges as at the first - The early and best days of Israel under Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the judges. As the degeneracy had shown itself most in the magistrates (Isaiah 1:17-23), so, at the "restoration," these shall be such as the theocracy "at the first" had contemplated-namely, after the Babylonian restoration in part and typically; but fully and antitypically under Messiah (Isaiah 32:1; Isaiah 52:8; Jeremiah 33:7; Matthew 19:28, "ye which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel").
Afterward thou shalt be called ... The faithful city - no longer "an harlot" (Isaiah 1:21).