Isaiah 60:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Arise, shine;a for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. ”

Isaiah 60:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arise - This is evidently addressed to the church, or to Zion regarded as the seat of the church. It is represented as having been in a state of affliction and calamity (compare the notes at Isa...
Isaiah 60:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arise, shine; for thy (a) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. (a) The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, ( Isaiah...
Isaiah 60:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Glories of the New Jerusalem. This, with Isaiah 61 f., is marked by close imitation of the style of 2 Is. Isaiah 60:1-3 . The prophet, taking for his standpoint the fulfilment of his predi...
Isaiah 60:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Arise. Compare Isaiah 51:9 ; Isaiah 51:17 , "awake"; Isaiah 52:2 , "awake"; Isaiah 60:1 , "arise"; and contrast the cry to Babylon ( Isaiah 47:1 ), "come down, sit in the dust". See App-82. Thi...
Isaiah 60:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. Arise, be bright. He now shows what is the efficacy of that word of which he formerly (150) spoke; for he raises up a prostrate and afflicted Church, and restores her to her brightness;...
Isaiah 60:1 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 999 OUR DUTY ARISING FROM THE ADVENT OF CHRIST Isaiah 60:1 .— Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. THE prophetic style is wonderfully su...
Isaiah 60:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. Arise - Call upon God through Christ, for his salvation; and, Shine - אורי ori, be illuminated: for till thou arise...
Isaiah 60:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Arise, shine— "Arise from your state of darkness and mourning, and enter into a state of light and happiness; that thou mayest be able to enlighten others: shew thy native beauty; suffer thyself to...
Isaiah 60:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. An ode of congratulation to Zion on her restoration, at the Lord's second advent, to her true position as the...
Isaiah 60:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. The light of deliverance so long waited for ( Isaiah 59:9 ) is about to shine. This prophecy received its highest fulfilment at the coming of Christ, the true Light of the world, which was follo...
Isaiah 60:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

LX. (1) Arise, shine... — The description of the redeemed Zion — i.e., the new Jerusalem — seen in the prophet’s vision as under the forms of the old. She has been prostrate, as in the darknes...
Isaiah 60:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXIV SALVATION IN SIGHT Isaiah 60:1-22 THE deliverance from Babylon has long been certain, since chapter 48; all doubts in the way of Return have been removed, Isaiah 49:1-26 through...
Isaiah 60:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

In this and the next two Chapter s, 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 describ...
Isaiah 60:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS God the Holy Ghost is here celebrating the glory and praise of Christ, and his Church in him; and showing what a vast accession of redeemed souls shall pour into the Redeemer's kingdom in t...
Isaiah 60:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Arise, shine ,.... The Targum adds, "O Jerusalem"; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; and no doubt but the church of God is here addressed: and by what follows it seems to be...
Isaiah 60:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. Ver. 1. Arise. ] Thou, O my Church, that now liest in pulvere vastitatis, as a forlorn captive, rouse up thysel...
Isaiah 60:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Arise , &c. The prophet here addresses the church of God, which he supposes to be sitting sorrowful, and exhorts her to awake and arise from a state of darkness and mourning, and enter into a st...
Isaiah 60:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Extension of the Church. B. C. 706. 1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the g...
Isaiah 60:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ISAIAH CHAPTER 60 The glory and blessings of the new church after a short affliction. Arise; a word of encouragement accommodated to the Jewish or Hebrew style, wherein, as by lying down is des...
Isaiah 60:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘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,...
Isaiah 60:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE DAWNING OF GOD’S LIGHT, AND ITS AWAKENING CALL Isaiah 60:1-6 . Arise, shine, for thy light is come, &c. We ourselves are a part fulfilment of this prophecy. It is Israel’s God we worship...
Isaiah 60:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 60:1 Taking these words into the full illumination of Christianity, they express, very beautifully, the awakening of a man to his true work in the world. It is because the "glory of the Lor...
Isaiah 60:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 60:1-3 . Arise, 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...
Isaiah 60:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This chapter contains the full cup of consolation given to Zion, after all her woes and long afflictions in the dark ages of the church. But it is, as Matthew Henry judiciously observes, “the gospel...
Isaiah 60:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Arise, shine; for thy light is come The glory of spiritual Israel Having repeatedly and fully shown that the national pro-eminence of Israel was not to be perpetual, that the loss of it was the...
Isaiah 60:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VII . THE GLORIES OF THE RESTORED JERUSALEM ( Isaiah 60:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 60:1-23 A SONG OF TRIUMPH UPON GLORIFIED ZION . This is rather a detach...
Isaiah 60:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
Isaiah 60:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 4:14 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Ephesians 5:8 ; Isaiah 52:1 ; Isaiah 52:2 ; Isaiah 60:19 ; Isaiah 60:20 ; Isaiah 9:2 ; John 1:9 ; John 12:46 ; John 3:19 ; John 8:12 ; Luke 1:78 ; Luke 1...
Isaiah 60:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

Isaiah 60:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

Isaiah 60:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 60:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 60:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 60:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

Isaiah 60:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 60:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 60:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 60:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

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

Isaiah 60:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 60:1 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 60:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 60:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 60:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 60:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Isaiah 60:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 60:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes