Isaiah 60:21 - Exposition

Thy people also shall be all righteous . Here the prophet touches the root of the matter. Pain and sorrow are the fruit of sin. Once let sin disappear, and sorrow goes with it. It is the foundation of all the glory and all the happiness of the redeemed in their Lord's final kingdom, that they are cleansed from all defilement of sin, and "are as the angels" ( Mark 12:25 ). They shall inherit the land; rather, the earth— the "new heavens and new earth" of Isaiah:17; Isaiah 66:22 . The branch of my planting ; rather, a sprout of my planting ; i.e. a sprout which I have planted.