Isaiah 60:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

For brass I will bring gold - Poetically, with figurative allusion to the furniture of the temple; all things in that happy age to come shall be changed for the better.

I will also make ... thine exactors - namely, of tribute.

Righteousness. All rulers in restored Jerusalem shall not only be peaceable and righteous, but shall be, as it were, "peace" and "righteousness" itself in their administration.

Isaiah 60:17

17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.