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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 60:1-22

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 60:15-16

‘Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, So that no man passed through you, I will make you an everlasting excellency, A joy of many generations. You will also suck the milk of the nations, And you will suck the breast of kings, And you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Saviour, And your redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.’ This new Zion, once forsaken and hated and avoided by men, will be given everlasting excellency, it will be the joy of the people of many generations. The nations and kings... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 60:17-18

‘For bronze I will bring gold, And for iron I will bring silver, And for wood, bronze, And for stones, iron. I will also make your officers peace, And your exactors (taskmasters) righteousness, Violence will no more be heard in your land, Desolation or destruction within your borders, But you will call your walls, Salvation, And your gates, Praise.’ The catalogue of perfection for the new Jerusalem continues. Gold and silver instead of bronze and iron; bronze and iron instead of wood and... 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 60:16

Thou shalt also suck, & c.; a metaphor taken from children sucking nourishment from the breast. The sense is, that the church should draw or drain the wealth of nations, and the riches and power of kings, and whatever is most excellent, and that it should come freely and affectionately, as milk flows from the breast of the mother; the same thing intended Isaiah 49:23, and in the foregoing verses. Thou shalt know, i.e. experience it; knowing is often put for an experimental knowing. The... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 60:17

For brass I will bring gold: here is the effect of the former promise, Thy poverty shall be turned to riches, all things shall be altered for the best; an allusion to the days of Solomon, when gold was as brass: thus, on the contrary, when they change for the worse in the state, it useth to be expressed by the like metaphors, Isaiah 21:0; Isaiah 22:0; Isaiah 23:0. I will also make thy officers peace, i.e. loving, meek, and peaceable; the abstract put for the concrete, as is usual, whether you... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Isaiah 60:15-16

DISCOURSE: 1002THE FUTURE PROSPERITY OF THE JEWISH CHURCHIsaiah 60:15-16. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.THE Church of God, previous to our Saviour’s first advent, looked forward to that event with eager... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Isaiah 60:16

redeemer Heb. goel, Redemp. (Kinsman type). (See Scofield " :-") read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 60:1-22

Chapter 60Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and the kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed... read more

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