‏ Isaiah 51:14

14. captive exile--literally, one bowed down as a captive (Is 10:4) [Maurer]. The scene is primarily Babylon, and the time near the close of the captivity. Secondarily, and antitypically, the mystical Babylon, the last enemy of Israel and the Church, in which they have long suffered, but from which they are to be gloriously delivered.

pit--such as were many of the ancient dungeons (compare Jr 38:6, 11, 13; Ge 37:20).

nor ... bread ... fail--(Is 33:16; Jr 37:21).

‏ Isaiah 60:1

CHAPTER 60

Is 60:1-22. Israel's Glory after Her Affliction.

An ode of congratulation to Zion on her restoration at the Lord's second advent to her true position as the mother church from which the Gospel is to be diffused to the whole Gentile world; the first promulgation of the Gospel among the Gentiles, beginning at Jerusalem [Lu 24:47], is an earnest of this. The language is too glorious to apply to anything that as yet has happened.

1. Arise--from the dust in which thou hast been sitting as a mourning female captive (Is 3:26; 52:1, 2).

shine--or, "be enlightened; for thy light cometh"; impart to others the spiritual light now given thee (Is 60:3). The Margin and Gesenius translate, "Be enlightened"; be resplendent with posterity; imperative for the future indicative, "Thou shalt be enlightened" (Is 58:8, 10; Ep 5:8, 14).

glory of the Lord--not merely the Shekinah, or cloud of glory, such as rested above the ark in the old dispensation, but the glory of the Lord in person (Jr 3:16, 17).

is risen--as the sun (Mal 4:2; Lu 1:78, Margin).