Isaiah 60:1
Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee.
Young's Literal Translation
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 are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.
Isaiah 58:8Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.
Isaiah 62:1For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
Ezekiel 43:4And the honour of Jehovah hath come in unto the house, the way of the gate whose face [is] eastward.
Matthew 4:16the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death — light arose to them.'
Luke 1:78Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon 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 →