Isaiah 60:15
Because thou hast become desolate and hated, and there was no helper, therefore I will make thee a perpetual gladness, a joy of many generations.
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Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
Isaiah 6:12And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.
Isaiah 35:10and shall return, and come to Zion with joy, and everlasting joy shall be over their head; for on their head shall be praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.
Isaiah 54:6The Lord has not called thee as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, saith thy God.
Isaiah 65:18But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.
Jeremiah 33:11Then the priests and the false prophets said to the princes and to all the people, The judgment of death is due to this man; because he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 60:10-15
The Enlargement of the Church. ( b. c. 706.) 9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. 10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. 11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be… Read the whole commentary →