Isaiah 60:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. ”

• Isaiah 60:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the nation and kingdom - Perhaps this is given as a reason for What is said in the previous verse - that kings and their subjects should come to Zion and embrace the true religion, because if...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For the nation and (m) kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted. (m) He shows that God has given all power and authority here in earth for the use...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the nation. shall perish. This is still future.

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. For the nation and kingdom. The Prophet dwells largely on confirming the hearts of believers, that they may not doubt that the restoration shall be such as he has described. Those events...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And the sons of strangers, &c.— The discourse here rises, and will continue to rise, till the end of the section, that the blindest may discern spiritual things involved in these corporeal figu...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. For the nation ... that will not serve thee shall perish. The reason which will l...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here Jesus is evidently spoken of, agreeably to that prophecy, Psalms 72:11 ; and the Lord himself very solemnly confirmed the same truth, Luke 19:27 .

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• Isaiah 60:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ,.... That will not serve the Lord Christ, and worship him with his church and people; that will not be obedient to the laws and ordi...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations shall be utterly wasted. Ver. 12. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish. ] They ar...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the sons of the stranger Namely, such as were not Israelites born, but of Gentile race; and he puts sons of strangers, by a usual Hebraism, for strangers; shall build up thy walls As Gentil...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Enlargement of the Church. B. C. 706.       9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and th...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That will not serve thee; do offices of kindness; so is the word used, Isaiah 19:23 ; or rather, that will not submit to Christ's sceptre. Shall perish; shall be no more sui juris , but subdu...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And strangers (literally ‘the sons of the stranger') will build up your walls, And their kings will serve you, For in my wrath I smote you, But in my favour I have had mercy on you. Your gates w...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  NECESSITY OF RELIGION TO THE WELL-BEING OF A NATION Isaiah 60:12 . The nation and kingdom that will not serve Thee shall perish, &c. I. True religion is essential to the welfare of a nation....

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - 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...

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

  The Glory of the Messiah upon the Gentiles

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 2:35 ; Daniel 2:44 ; Daniel 2:45 ; Isaiah 41:11 ; Isaiah 54:15 ; Luke 19:27 ; Matthew 21:44 ; Psalms 2:12 ; Revelation 2:26 ; Revelation 2:27 ; Zechariah 12:2-4 ; Zechariah 14:12-1...

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• Isaiah 60:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Serve — That will not submit to Christ's scepter.

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