Isaiah 60:1
Rise up to be illuminated, O Jerusalem! For your light has arrived, and the glory of the Lord has risen over you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. A light has risen for the inhabitants of the region of the shadow of death.
Isaiah 58:8Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.
Isaiah 62:1For the sake of Zion, I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest, until her Just One advances in splendor, and her Savior is kindled like a lamp.
Ezekiel 43:4And the majesty of the Lord advanced into the temple, along the way of the gate which looked toward the east.
Matthew 4:16A people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light. And unto those sitting in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen.”
Luke 1:78through the heart of the mercy of our God, by which, descending from on high, he has visited us,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 60:1
This whole chapter is all to the same purport, all in the same strain; it is a part of God's covenant with his church, which is spoken of in the last verse of the foregoing chapter, and the blessings here promised are the fruits of the word and Spirit there promised. The long continuance of the church, even unto the utmost ages of time, was there promised, and here the large extent of the church, even unto the utmost regions of the earth; and both these tend to the honour of the Redeemer. It is here promised, I.… Read the whole commentary →