Isa 2:2-3, 49:6-7, 22-23, 55:5, 60:3-14, Jer 16:19, Dan 2:44-45 | TSK | STEP | And it shall. in the last. the mountain. established. or, prepared. and all.

kings.Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, and other Persian monarchs, as well as Alexander the Great, and his successors, particularly Demetrius, conferred many privileges and immunities on the Jewish people, and were munificent benefactors to their temple. But the prophecy was more remarkably and fully fulfilled in the favour which Constantine the Great, and other Christian princes and princesses from his time to the present day, have shewn to the church of Christ; though it cannot be disputed, that the grand and signal accomplishment of these predictions is yet future.

7; 52:15; 60:3,10,11,16; 62:2; Ezr 1:2-4; 6:7-12; 7:11-28; Ne 2:6-10

Es 8:1-10:3; Ps 2:10-12; 68:31; 72:10,11; 138:4; Re 21:24-26

nursing fathers. Heb. nourishers.

Nu 11:12

queens. Heb. princesses. bow.

45:14; 60:14; Ge 43:26; Ps 72:9; Re 3:9

lick up.

Mic 7:17

for they.

25:9; 64:4; Ps 25:3; 34:22; 69:6; Ro 5:5; 9:33; 10:11; 1Pe 2:6

Isaiah 55:5

thou shalt.

11:10,11; 52:15; 56:8; Ge 49:10; Ps 18:43; Ro 15:20; Eph 2:11; 3:5

nations.

60:5; Ho 1:10; Zec 2:11; 8:20-23

he.

60:9; Ps 110:1-3; Lu 24:26; Joh 13:31,32; 17:1; Ac 3:13; 5:31

Heb 5:5; 1Pe 1:11

Isaiah 60:3-14

the Gentiles.

2:2-5; 11:10; 19:23-25; 45:14; 49:6,12,23; 54:1-3; 66:12,19,20

Ge 49:10; Ps 22:27; 67:1-4; 72:17-19; 98:2,3; 117:1,2; Am 9:12

Mic 4:1,2; Zec 2:11; 8:20-23; Mt 2:1-11; 28:19; Lu 24:47

Joh 12:20,21,32; Ac 13:47; 15:17; Ro 11:11-15; 15:9-12

kings.

10,16; 49:7,23; Ps 2:10; 68:29; 72:11; 138:4; Re 11:15; 21:24

Lift.

49:18; Joh 4:35; Ac 13:44

they come.

42:6; 49:20-22; 66:11,12; Mt 8:11; Ga 3:28,29

thou shalt see.

Jer 33:9; Ho 1:10,11; 3:5; Ac 10:45; 11:17

be enlarged.

54:2; 1Sa 2:1; 2Co 6:1-13; 10:15; Re 21:26

abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee. or, noiseof the sea shall be turned towards thee.

24:14,15; Ps 96:7-9; 98:7-9; Ro 11:25

forces. or, wealth.

11; 23:18; 61:6; Ac 24:17; Ro 15:26

multitude.

30:6; Jud 6:5; 7:12; 1Ki 10:2; 2Ki 8:9

Midian.

Ge 25:4,13

all.

45:14; Ge 10:7; 25:3; 2Ch 9:1; Ps 72:10,15

bring.

61:6; Mal 1:11; Mt 2:11

they shall shew.

Ro 15:9; Php 2:17; 1Pe 2:5,9; Re 5:9,10; 7:9-12

the flocks.

42:11; Ge 25:13

they shall.

56:7; Job 42:8; Ro 12:1; 15:16; Heb 13:10,15,16

I will.

Hag 2:7-9

fly.

4; 45:22; Lu 13:29; Re 7:9

a cloud.

Heb 12:1

as the.

Ge 8:8-11

the isles.

42:4,10; 49:1; 51:5; 66:19,20; Ge 9:27; 10:2-5; Ps 72:10; Zep 2:11

the ships.

2:16; 1Ki 10:22; 22:48

thy sons.

4; Ps 68:30,31; Zec 14:14; 2Co 8:4,5; Ga 3:26; 4:26

unto.

Ex 33:19; 34:5-7; Jos 9:9; 1Ki 8:41; 10:1; Pr 18:20; Jer 3:17

Joh 17:26; Ac 9:15

because.

14:1,2; 43:4; 52:1-6; 55:5; 57:17; Jer 30:19; Lu 2:32

the sons.

61:5; 66:21; Zec 6:15

their kings.

3; 49:23; Ezr 6:3-12; 7:12-28; Ne 2:7-9; Re 21:24,26

in my wrath.

12:1; 54:7,8; 57:17,18; Ps 30:5

Therefore.The subject of this chapter, says Bp. Lowth, is the great increase and flourishing state of the church of God, by the conversion and accession of the heathen nations to it; which is set forth in such ample and exalted terms, as plainly shew that the full completion of this prophecy is reserved for future times. This subject is displayed in the most splendid colours, under a great variety of images highly poetical, designed to give a general idea of the glories of that perfect state of the church of God, which we are taught to expect in the latter times; when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in, and the Jews shall be converted and gathered from their dispersions, and "the kingdom of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ."

thy gates.

Ne 13:19; Re 21:25

forces. or, wealth.

5; *marg:

41:11; 54:15; Ps 2:12; Da 2:35,44,45; Zec 12:2-4; 14:12-19

Mt 21:44; Lu 19:27; Re 2:26,27

The glory.That is, the cedar; and as the choice timber of Lebanon beautified Solomon's temple, that footstool of Jehovah; so shall the peculiar advantages of every nation, and of every description of men, concur to beautify the church of Christ, which He has determined to make glorious. The language then becomes more energetic, and the images employed more grand and magnificent; and nothing can answer to the glorious description but some future exalted state of the church on earth, or the church triumphant in heaven; though several expressions seem to limit it to the church below.

35:2; 41:19,20; 55:13; Ho 14:6,7

to beautify.

Ezr 7:27

the place.

66:1; 1Ch 28:2; Ps 96:6; 132:7

sons.

14:1,2; 45:14; 49:23; Jer 16:19; Re 3:9

The city.

62:12; Ps 87:3; Heb 12:22; Re 3:12; 14:1

Jeremiah 16:19

my strength.

17:17; Ps 18:1,2; 19:14; 27:5; 46:1,7,11; 62:2,7; 91:1,2; 144:1,2

Pr 18:10; Isa 25:4; 32:2; Eze 11:16; Na 1:7; Hab 3:19

Gentiles.

3:16,17; Ps 22:27-30; 67:2-7; 68:31; 72:8-12; 86:9; Isa 2:2,3

Isa 11:9,10; 49:6; 60:1-3; 62:2; Mic 4:1,2; Zec 2:11; 8:20-23

Mal 1:11; Re 7:9-11; 11:15

Surely.

3:23; 10:14,15; Hab 2:18,19; 1Pe 1:18

wherein.

2:11; 10:5; Isa 44:10

Daniel 2:44-45

in the days. Chal. in their days.That is, in the days of one of these kingdoms, (see Ru 1:1,) i.e, the Roman; in which the "God of heaven set up" the spiritual kingdom of the Messiah, which shall yet "become a great mountain, and fill the whole earth."

the God.

28,37

set up.

Ge 49:10; Ps 2:6-12; 72:1-20; 89:3,4,19-36; 110:1-4; Isa 9:6,7

Mt 3:2,3; 28:18; Eph 1:20-22

which shall never.

4:3,34; 6:26; 7:13,14; Ps 145:13; Eze 37:25; Mic 4:7; Lu 1:32,33

Joh 12:34; Re 11:15

kingdom. Chal. kingdom thereof. break.

8:25; Ps 2:9; 21:8,9; Isa 60:12; 1Co 15:24,25; Re 2:27; 19:15-20

thou sawest.

24,35; Isa 28:16; Zec 12:3; Mt 21:24