Isaiah 60:1
"Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is risen on you.
New Heart English Bible
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.Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
Isaiah 58:8Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Isaiah 62:1For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
Ezekiel 43:4The glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Matthew 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, andto those who sat in the region and shadow of death,to them light has dawned."
Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God,whereby the dawn from on high will visit 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 →