Isaiah 60:1-62:12 NIV

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 60:1-8

1-8 As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light is come. And if God's glory is seen upon us to our honour, we ought, not only with our lips, but in our lives, to return its praise. We meet with nothing in the history of the Jews which can be deemed a fulfilment of the prophecy in this chapter; we must conclude it relates principally to future events. It predicts the purity and enlargement of the church. The conversion of souls is here described.... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 60:1-12

The Glory of the Messiah upon the Gentiles v. 1. Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. v. 2. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people, the expression referring to the murky darkness of a cloudy day; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. Here the evangelist of the Old Testament addresses himself to the congregation of believers, first of all among His own people, the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 60:1-22

II.—THE SECOND DISCOURSEThe Rising of the heavenly Sun of life upon Jerusalem, and the new personal and natural life conditioned therebyIsaiah 60:0The Prophet has returned from speaking of the present to treat of the last things. He sees a new Sun, the principle of new life, rise upon Jerusalem. Although this future, too, is depicted in colors belonging to the present time, yet we perceive from the matters which he specifies, that his discourse relates to the distant future. And, although the... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah 60:1-3

Isaiah THE SUNLIT CHURCH Isa_60:1 - Isa_60:3 . The personation of Israel as a woman runs through the whole of this second portion of Isaiah’s prophecy. We see her thrown on the earth a mourning mother, a shackled captive. We hear her summoned once and again to awake, to arise, to shake herself from the dust, to loose the bands of her neck. These summonses are prophecies of the impending Messianic deliverance. The same circle of truths, in a somewhat different aspect, is presented in the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 60:1-14

the Lord Glorifies His People Isaiah 60:1-14 From this chapter and onward, the prophet predicts the glories of the restored Hebrew people. In a secondary sense, they are also true of the Church, for we are blessed with faithful Abraham. See Galatians 3:8-9 . The summons to arise is addressed to Jerusalem. The seer beholds the flush of dawn on the eastern sky and bids the Holy City catch the earliest beams, Isaiah 60:1-2 . While darkness veils the lowlands, the dweller on the plains looks up... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 60:1-22

In this and the next two chapters, we have a glorious description of the ultimate realization of the purposes of God. It commences with a declaration of the material prosperity of the people described in the last verses of the previous chapter. The breaking of the new day is first spoken of. The holy nation is a center of light in the midst of surrounding darkness. The glory of Jehovah manifest, nations and kings gather to the new center. A graphic description of the returning exiles follows.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 60:1-2

‘Arise, shine, for your light is come And the glory of Yahweh is risen on you, For behold darkness will cover the earth (or ‘land’), And gross darkness the peoples, But Yahweh will rise on you, And his glory will be seen on you.’ We find here an echo of Isaiah 8:22 to Isaiah 9:2. Here we have a further description of the coming King. His light will descend on Zion (Isaiah 4:5). He will come like a shining light among His own. And those who are His will respond to His light. They will see the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 60:1-22

THE COMING OF THE DELIVERER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ZION ( Isaiah 59:15 to Isaiah 62:12 ). Isaiah wanted them to know that God sees their desperate condition and determines to act. He looks for a man, someone to stand in the gap, but there is none. So He Himself acts. He will step in on behalf of His people. He will bring them a Deliverer, a Redeemer, One Who is clothed in righteousness and salvation, and also One Who is clothed in vengeance and zealousness for God. He is concerned with... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 60:1-22

Isaiah 60:1-Song of Solomon : . The Glories of the New Jerusalem.— This, with Isaiah 61 f., is marked by close imitation of the style of 2 Is. Isaiah 60:1-Leviticus : . The prophet, taking for his standpoint the fulfilment of his prediction, pictures as accomplished facts Zion’ s coming glories. While all other nations lie in darkness, Yahweh bids Zion stand forth radiant in the light of the prosperity He bestows. The nations are drawn to Zion’ s bright light. Isaiah 60:3 . rising: i.e.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 60:1

Arise; a word of encouragement accommodated to the Jewish or Hebrew style, wherein, as by lying down is described a servile and calamitous condition, Isaiah 47:1; so by rising, and standing up, a recovery out of it into a free and prosperous one, as may be seen frequently. Rouse up; intimating her deliverance to be at hand. And here under a type, or hieroglyphical description of Jerusalem’s restoration, is displayed the flourishing state of the Gentile church under the Messiah, and that in the... read more