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Isaiah 60:20

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 60:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Thy sun … thy moon. That which is to thee instead of sun and moon—Jehovah's brightness. The days of thy mourning shall be ended. Till the new Jerusalem descends from heaven (), and Christ reigns personally over his people (), the Church is always, more or less, in a state of mourning.

The Bridegroom is away (); his light shines upon his Church only by snatches; his Church feels itself unworthy of him—cold, unloving, stained with sin. Fasting, weeping, and mourning befit such a state of things.

But in the final condition of the redeemed their mourning shall be ended, "sorrow and sighing shall have fled away" (); God shall have "wiped away all tears from their eyes" (); "There shall be no more death" (); "no more curse" (); "neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" ().

The days of mourning shall be ended.

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