Isa 60:7-14, Zec 1:15-16, 2:4-5 | TSK | STEP | the flocks. they shall. I will.

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

Zechariah 1:15-16

2,11; Isa 47:7-9; Jer 48:11-13; Am 6:1; Re 18:7,8

for.

Isa 54:8; Heb 12:6,7

and.

Ps 69:26; 83:2-5; 137:7; Isa 10:5-7; 47:6; Jer 51:24,34,35

Eze 25:3-7,12-17; 26:2; 29:6,7; 25:3-9; 36:4,5; Am 1:3-13; Ob 1:10-16

I am.

2:10,11; 8:3; Isa 12:1; 54:8-10; Jer 31:22-25; 33:10-12

Eze 37:24-28; 39:25-29; 48:35

my house.

4:9; Ezr 6:14,15; Isa 44:26-28; Hag 1:14

and.

2:1,2; Job 38:5; Isa 34:11; Jer 31:39,40; Eze 40:3; 47:3

Zechariah 2:4-5

young.

Jer 1:6; Da 1:17; 1Ti 4:12

Jerusalem.We learn from Josephus, that Jerusalem actually overflowed with inhabitants, and gradually extended itself beyond its walls, and that Herod Agrippa fortified the new part, called Bezetha.

1:17; 8:4,5; 12:6; 14:10,11; Isa 33:20; 44:26; Jer 30:18,19; 31:24,27

Jer 31:38-40; 33:10-13; Eze 36:10,11; Mic 7:11

a wall.

9:8; Ps 46:7-11; 48:3,12; Isa 4:5; 12:6; 26:1,2; 33:21; 60:18,19

the glory.

Ps 3:3; Isa 60:19; Hag 2:7-9; Lu 2:32; Re 21:10,11,23; 22:3-5