Isaiah 60:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Isaiah 60:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For behold - Lo, darkness covers the earth. This is designed to turn the attention to the fact that all the rest of the world would be enveloped in deep spiritual night. Darkness - (See the n...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the (b) earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (b) Signifying, that all men are in dar...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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 60:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  behold. Figure of speech Asterismos , to call attention to the condition of the nations just before Israel's future glory shines forth. people . peoples.

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  2. For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth. He now exhibits in a stronger light, by means of comparison, that grace which he formerly mentioned; that we may form some idea how much God l...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Darkness shall cover the earth - This is the...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For, behold, &c.— The design of the Holy Spirit in this clause seems to be, to describe the state of the nations of the world at the time when God should illuminate the church with this light,...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Darkness shall cover the earth - the...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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 60:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The darkness shall cover the earth... — The darkness which had shrouded Zion still spreads its veil over the heathen nations of the world, but they also are to share in the light which is to stream...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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 60:2 - 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 60:2 - 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 60:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I beg to be understood as speaking with all due humility, on a subject so infinitely sublime and glorious; and rather as asking than deciding upon it; but I venture to say, it strikes me that the per...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people ,.... Like that which covered the land of Egypt, when there was light in Goshen: and this may be meant either of the da...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 2. For, behold, the darkness shall c...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth Ignorance, idolatry, and all kinds of errors and vices; and gross darkness the people Like that of Egypt; the most palpable blindness and infatuation a...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The darkness; either affliction and misery, a known metaphor; or ignorance and idolatry; as also all kinds of errors and immoralities, with which all that are out of the church are smutted and poll...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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,...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 60:2-3 The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. I. The first token that was shown to the Gentile world that the great Light had arisen which was to cast its beams over them as well as...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - 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 60:2 - 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 60:2 - 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 60:2 - 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 60:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Glory of the Messiah upon the Gentiles

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 8:11 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ; 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 ; Acts 14:16 ; Acts 17:23 ; Acts 17:30 ; Acts 17:31 ; Acts 26:18 ; Ephesians 4:17-20 ; Ezekiel 10:4 ; Habakkuk 3:3 ;...

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• Isaiah 60:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The darkness — All kinds of errors. The Lord — Christ. Shall be seen — Shall be conspicuous; as the Lord's arising, to the darkness covering the earth, so the glory being seen, answers to that gros...

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