Isaiah 60:21

And all your people [are] righteous, || They possess the earth for all time, || A branch of My planting, || A work of My hands, to be beautified.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

In Context

20Your sun goes in no more, || And your moon is not removed, || For YHWH becomes a continuous light to you. And the days of your mourning have been completed.

22The little one becomes a chief, || And the small one a mighty nation, || I, YHWH, hurry it in its own time!”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 7:10and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it has dwelt in its place, and it is not troubled anymore, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it anymore, as in the beginning,

Psalms 37:18YHWH knows the days of the perfect, || And their inheritance is for all time.

Psalms 37:29The righteous possess the land, || And they dwell on it forever.

Isaiah 4:3And it has been, he who is left in Zion, || And he who is remaining in Jerusalem, “Holy” is said of him, || Of everyone who is written for life in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 29:23For in his seeing his children, || The work of My hand, in his midst, || They sanctify My Name, || And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, || And they declare the God of Israel fearful.

Isaiah 43:21I have formed this people for Myself, || They recount My praise.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 60:16-22

The Glory of the Church. ( b. c. 706.) 15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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