Isaiah 60:3

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Gentiles	גוֹיִ֖ם go.Yim	H1471	a foreign nation · noun, common masculine plural absolute
come	וְהָלְכ֥וּ ve.ha.le.Khu	H1980	to walk (in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
light	לְאוֹרֵ֑ךְ le.'o.Rekh	H216	illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
kings	וּמְלָכִ֖ים u.me.la.Khim	H4428	a king · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
brightness	לְנֹ֥גַהּ le.No.gah	H5051	brilliancy (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct
rising	זַרְחֵֽךְ zar.Chekh	H2225	a rising of light · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,…
Acts 13:47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends…
Revelation 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Psalms 117:1-2 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
Isaiah 2:2-5 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shal…
Micah 4:1-2 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and…
Psalms 68:29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
Isaiah 45:14 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and the…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 60:1-8

It is here promised that the gospel temple shall be very lightsome and very large. I. It shall be very lightsome: Thy light has come. When the Jews returned out of captivity they had light and gladness, and joy and honour; they then were made to know the Lord and to rejoice in his great goodness; and upon both accounts their light came. When the Redeemer came to Zion he brought light with him, he himself came to be a light. Now observe, 1. What this light is, and whence it springs: The Lord shall arise upon thee (Isa 60:2), the glory of the Lord (Isa 60:1) shall be seen upon thee. God is the father and fountain of lights, and it is in his light that we shall see light. As far as we have the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 60:3

(Isa 2:3; Isa 11:10; Isa 43:6; Isa 49:22; Isa 66:12). kings-- (Isa 49:7, Isa 49:23; Isa 52:15). thy rising--rather, "thy sun-rising," that is, "to the brightness that riseth upon thee."

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 60:3

And the Gentiles shall come - This has been in some sort already fulfilled. The Gentiles have received the light of the Gospel from the land of Judea, and the Gentile kings have embraced that Gospel; so that many nations of the earth are full of the doctrine of Christ.

John Gill on Isaiah 60:3

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,.... To the Gospel, preached in the midst of her; and to Christ, who is her light and into her church state, and partake of the prosperity and happiness of it. The Targum is, "and nations shall walk in thy light;'' and so in Revelation 21:24, where it is interpreted of the nations of them that are saved, truly regenerated and converted persons: and kings to the brightness of thy rising; Christ, the sun of righteousness, will rise upon her; and this being the morning of the latter day glory, the church will rise as a bright morning star; and such be the evidence and lustre of Gospel truths and ordinances, that kings shall he enlightened by them, and…

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The Church Fathers

Prophecy did not lie, then, when it said, "Kings shall walk in thy light." They shall walk openly, and especially Gratian and Theodosius before other princes, no longer protected by the weapons of their soldiers but by their own merits; clothed not in purple garments but in the mantle of glory. In this world they took delight in pardoning many. How much the more are they consoled in the other life by the remembrance of their goodness, recalling that they had spared many? They now enjoy radiant light.
— Ambrose of Milan, ON THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS 52

It is the church whose children shall come to it with all speed after the resurrection, running to it from all quarters. [The church] rejoices, receiving the light that never goes down and clothed with the brightness of the Word as with a robe. For with what other more precious or honorable ornament was it becoming that the queen should be adorned, to be led as a bride to the Lord, when she had received a garment of light and therefore was called by the Father? Come then, let us go forward in our discourse and look on this marvelous woman as on virgins prepared for a marriage, pure and undefiled, perfect and radiating a permanent beauty, lacking nothing of the brightness of light; and instead of a dress, clothed with light itself; and instead of precious stones, her head adorned with shining stars.
— Methodius of Olympus, SYMPOSIUM OR BANQUET OF THE TEN VIRGINS 8:5

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Church — Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia,…
Gentiles · PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF — PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF
Heathen, The · Salvation of, foretold — Salvation of, foretold
Light · Illustrative of: The glory of the church — Illustrative of: The glory of the church

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 60:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 60:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 60:3

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 60:3

John Gill on Isaiah 60:3

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 60:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 60:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 60:3

Adam Clarke on Isaiah 60:3

John Gill on Isaiah 60:3

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Isaiah 60:3

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 60:2-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 60:3