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Isaiah — Capítulo 60

The glorious prospect displayed in this chapter seems to have elevated the prophet even above his usual majesty. The subject is the very flourishing condition of the Church of Jesus Christ at that period of the Gospel…

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Texto — Reina-Valera 1960

1Levántate, resplandece; porque ha venido tu luz, y la gloria de Jehová ha nacido sobre ti.

2Porque he aquí que tinieblas cubrirán la tierra, y oscuridad las naciones; mas sobre ti amanecerá Jehová, y sobre ti será vista su gloria.

3Y andarán las naciones a tu luz, y los reyes al resplandor de tu nacimiento.

4Alza tus ojos alrededor y mira, todos estos se han juntado, vinieron a ti; tus hijos vendrán de lejos, y tus hijas serán llevadas en brazos.

5Entonces verás, y resplandecerás; se maravillará y ensanchará tu corazón, porque se haya vuelto a ti la multitud del mar, y las riquezas de las naciones hayan venido a ti.

6Multitud de camellos te cubrirá; dromedarios de Madián y de Efa; vendrán todos los de Sabá; traerán oro e incienso, y publicarán alabanzas de Jehová.

7Todo el ganado de Cedar será juntado para ti; carneros de Nebaiot te serán servidos; serán ofrecidos con agrado sobre mi altar, y glorificaré la casa de mi gloria.

8¿Quiénes son estos que vuelan como nubes, y como palomas a sus ventanas?

9Ciertamente a mí esperarán los de la costa, y las naves de Tarsis desde el principio, para traer tus hijos de lejos, su plata y su oro con ellos, al nombre de Jehová tu Dios, y al Santo de Israel, que te ha glorificado.

10Y extranjeros edificarán tus muros, y sus reyes te servirán; porque en mi ira te castigué, mas en mi buena voluntad tendré de ti misericordia.

11Tus puertas estarán de continuo abiertas; no se cerrarán de día ni de noche, para que a ti sean traídas las riquezas de las naciones, y conducidos a ti sus reyes.

12Porque la nación o el reino que no te sirviere perecerá, y del todo será asolado.

13La gloria del Líbano vendrá a ti, cipreses, pinos y bojes juntamente, para decorar el lugar de mi santuario; y yo honraré el lugar de mis pies.

14Y vendrán a ti humillados los hijos de los que te afligieron, y a las pisadas de tus pies se encorvarán todos los que te escarnecían, y te llamarán Ciudad de Jehová, Sion del Santo de Israel.

15En vez de estar abandonada y aborrecida, tanto que nadie pasaba por ti, haré que seas una gloria eterna, el gozo de todos los siglos.

16Y mamarás la leche de las naciones, el pecho de los reyes mamarás; y conocerás que yo Jehová soy el Salvador tuyo y Redentor tuyo, el Fuerte de Jacob.

17En vez de bronce traeré oro, y por hierro plata, y por madera bronce, y en lugar de piedras hierro; y pondré paz por tu tributo, y justicia por tus opresores.

18Nunca más se oirá en tu tierra violencia, destrucción ni quebrantamiento en tu territorio, sino que a tus muros llamarás Salvación, y a tus puertas Alabanza.

19El sol nunca más te servirá de luz para el día, ni el resplandor de la luna te alumbrará, sino que Jehová te será por luz perpetua, y el Dios tuyo por tu gloria.

20No se pondrá jamás tu sol, ni menguará tu luna; porque Jehová te será por luz perpetua, y los días de tu luto serán acabados.

21Y tu pueblo, todos ellos serán justos, para siempre heredarán la tierra; renuevos de mi plantío, obra de mis manos, para glorificarme.

22El pequeño vendrá a ser mil, el menor, un pueblo fuerte. Yo Jehová, a su tiempo haré que esto sea cumplido pronto.

ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY

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I. Arise - Call upon God through Christ, for his salvation; and,

Arise - Call upon God through Christ, for his salvation; and, Shine - אורי ori, be illuminated: for till thou arise and call upon God, thou wilt never receive true light. For thy light is come - כי בא אורך ki ba orech, for thy light cometh. The Messiah is at the door; who, while he is a light to lighten the Gentiles, will be the glory - the effulgence, of his people Israel.

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II. Darkness shall cover the earth - This is the state of the Gentile people.

Darkness shall cover the earth - This is the state of the Gentile people.

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III. And the Gentiles shall come - This has been in some sort already fulfilled. The Gentiles have rec…

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.

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IV. Shall be nursed at thy side "Shall be carried at the side" - For תאמנה teamanah, shall be nursed,…

Shall be nursed at thy side "Shall be carried at the side" - For תאמנה teamanah, shall be nursed, the Septuagint and Chaldee read תנשאנה tinnasenah, shall be carried. A MS. has על כתף תנשאנה al catheph tinnasenah, "shall be carried on the shoulder;" instead of על צד תאמנה al tsad teamanah, "shall be nursed on the side." Another MS. has both כתף catheph and צד tsad. Another MS. has it thus: תאמנה:תנשאנה tinnasenah: teamanah, with a line drawn over the first word. Sir John Chardin says that it is the general custom in the east to carry their children astride upon the hip with the arm round their body. His MS. note on this place is as follows: - Coutume en Orient de porter les enfans sur le coste a; califourchon sur la hanche: cette facon est generale aux Indes; les enfans se tiennent comme cela, et la personne qui les porte les embrasse et serre par le corps; parceque sont (ni) emmaillottes, ni en robes qui les embrassent. "In the east it is the custom to carry the children on the haunch, with the legs astride. This is the general custom in India. The children support themselves in this way, and the arm of the nurse goes round the body and presses the child close to the side; and this they can easily do, as the children are not swathed, nor encumbered with clothes." Non brachiis occidentalium more, sed humeris, divaricatis tibiis, impositos circumferunt. "They carry them about, not in their arms after the manner of the western nations, but on their shoulders; the children being placed astride." Cotovic. Iter. Syr. cap. 14. This last quotation seems to favor the reading על כתף by al catheph, on the shoulder, as the Septuagint likewise do: but upon the whole I think that על צד תנשאנה al tsad tinnasenah is the true reading, which the Chaldee favors; and I have accordingly followed it. See Isa 66:12. - L. This mode of carrying children is as common in India as carrying them in the arms is in Europe.

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V. Then thou shalt see "Then shalt thou fear" - For תראי tirai, thou shalt see, as ours and much the…

Then thou shalt see "Then shalt thou fear" - For תראי tirai, thou shalt see, as ours and much the greater number of the translators, ancient and modern, render it, forty MSS. (ten ancient) of Kennicott's, and twenty-eight of De Rossi's, with one ancient of my own, and the old edition of 1488, have תיראי tirai, thou shalt fear: the true reading, confirmed by the perfect parallelism of the sentences: the heart ruffled and dilated in the second line answering to the fear and joy expressed in the first. The Prophet Jeremiah, Jer 33:9, has the same natural and elegant sentiment: - "And this city shall become to me a name of joy; A praise and an honor for all the nations of the earth; Which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: And they shall fear, and they shall tremble, at all the goodness And at all the prosperity that I procure unto her." And David: - "I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psa 139:14 His tibi me rebus quaedam divina voluptas Percipit atque horror. Lucret. 3:28. Recenti mens trepidat metu, Plenoque Bacchi pectore turbidum Laetatur. Hor. Carm. 2:19. 50:5.

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VI. The praises of the Lord "And the praise of Jehovah" - Thirty-three MSS. and three editions have ו…

The praises of the Lord "And the praise of Jehovah" - Thirty-three MSS. and three editions have ותהלת uthehillath, in the singular number; and so read the ancient versions, and one of my own MSS.

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VII. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee - Vitringa on the place understands their ministeri…

The rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee - Vitringa on the place understands their ministering, and ascending or going up on the altar, as offering themselves voluntarily: ipsi se, non expectato sacerdote alto, gloriae et sanctificationi divini nominis ultro ac libenter oblaturi. "They, waiting for no priest, go and freely offer themselves to the glory and sanctification of the sacred name." This gives a very elegant and poetical turn to the image. It was a general notion that prevailed with sacrificers among the heathen, that the victim's being brought without reluctance to the altar was a good omen; and the contrary a bad one. Sabinos petit aliquanto tristior; quod sacrificanti hostia aufugerat. Sueton. Titus, cap. 10. Accessit dirum omen, profugus altaribus tauris. "It was an omen of dreadful portent when the victim fled away from the altar." Tacit. Hist. 3:56. - L.

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VIII. And as the doves to their windows "And like doves upon the wing?" - Instead of אל el, to, forty-t…

And as the doves to their windows "And like doves upon the wing?" - Instead of אל el, to, forty-two MSS. of Kennicott's, and one of mine, have by על, upon. For ארבתיהם arubboteyhem, their windows, read אברתיהם ebrotheyhem, their wings, transposing a letter. - Houbigant. The Septuagint render it συν νεοσσοις, "with their young;" they read אפרחיהם ephrocheyhem, nearer to the latter than to the present reading. - L.

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IX. The ships of Tarshish first "The ships of Tarshish among the first" - For בראשנה barishonah twent…

The ships of Tarshish first "The ships of Tarshish among the first" - For בראשנה barishonah twenty-five MSS. and the Syriac read כבראשנה kebarishonah, "as at the first." The ships of Tarshish AS at the first; that is, as they brought gold and silver in the days of Solomon.

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X. And I will make the place of my feet glorious "And that I may glorify the place whereon I rest my…

And I will make the place of my feet glorious "And that I may glorify the place whereon I rest my feet" - The temple of Jerusalem was called the house of God, and the place of his rest or residence. The visible symbolical appearance of God, called by the Jews the schechinah, was in the most holy place, between the wings of the cherubim, above the ark. This is considered as the throne of God, presiding as King over the Jewish state; and as a footstool is a necessary appendage to a throne, (see note on Isa 52:2 (note)), the ark is considered as the footstool of God, and is so called, Psa 99:6; Ch1 28:2. The glory of Lebanon - That is, the cedar.

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XI. Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee "Nor by night shall the brightness of …

Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee "Nor by night shall the brightness of the moon enlighten thee" - This line, as it stands in the present text, seems to be defective. The Septuagint and Chaldee both express the night, which is almost necessary to answer to day in the preceding line, as well as to perfect the sense here. I therefore think that we ought, upon the authority of the Septuagint and Chaldee, to read either ולילה velailah, and by night, instead of ולנגה ulenogah, and for brightness; or ולנגה בלילה ulenogah ballailah, adding the word בלילה ballailah, by night. - L.

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XII. Of my planting - מטעי mattai; so, with the Keri, read forty-four MSS. (seven ancient) and six edi…

Of my planting - מטעי mattai; so, with the Keri, read forty-four MSS. (seven ancient) and six editions; with which agree the Syriac, Chaldee, and Vulgate.

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XIII. I the Lord will hasten it in his time - There is a time set for the fulfillment of this prophecy:…

I the Lord will hasten it in his time - There is a time set for the fulfillment of this prophecy: that time must come before it begins to take place; but when it does begin, the whole will be performed in a short space. It is not, therefore, the time determined for the event that shall be hastened, but all the circumstances of the event; all the parts of the prediction shall be speedily completed. I the Lorde in hys tyme sodeynly schal boun thys. - Old MS. Bible. And because it is the Lord, therefore it will be done: for although it be difficult, he is almighty.

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