Isaiah 60:15

Instead of you remaining abandoned and hated, with no one passing through you, 1 I will make you a thing of pride forever, a joy from generation to generation. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14They will come to you to bow down, the sons of those who humbled you; they will bow at your feet; 1 they will call you The City of Yahweh, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 1

16You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse at the breast of kings; 1 you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:7Your country is ruined; your cities are burned; 1 your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them— 1 abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers. 1

Isaiah 6:12and until Yahweh has sent the people far away, and the solitude of the land is great. 1

Isaiah 35:10The ransomed of Yahweh will return 1 and come with singing to Zion, and everlasting joy will be on their heads; 1 gladness and joy will overtake them; sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 54:6For Yahweh has called you back as a wife abandoned and grieved in spirit, 1 like a woman married young and rejected,” says your God. 1

Isaiah 65:18But you will be glad and rejoice forever in what I am about to create. See, I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and her people as a delight. 1

Jeremiah 33:11the sound of joy and the sound of gladness, the sound of the groom and the sound of the bride, the sound of those who say, while they bring thank offerings to the house of Yahweh, “Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, and his unfailing love lasts forever!” For I will restore the fortunes of the land to what they were before,' says Yahweh.

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 →

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