What Is The Book Of Isaiah 60 About

What Is The Book Of Isaiah 60 About. In chapter 60, the prophet renews the promises of a new day for the community of faith. We hear her summoned once and again to awake, to arise, to shake herself from the dust, to loose the bands of her neck.

Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness. Though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples, on you yahweh is rising and over you his glory can be seen. Isaiah 51:2 look to abraham your father, and to sarah who gave you birth.

Note the correspondence of isaiah 60:17 with isaiah 9:9,10, and with later verses in that chapter.

For your light has come,and the lord's glory has risen on you. Isaiah 51:2 look to abraham your father, and to sarah who gave you birth. But the glory of the lord rises and appears over you. See how white the fields are already to the harvest, john 4:35.