Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 60:8
8Who are these who fly like a cloud, like doves to their shelters?
Isaiah 60:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
- New International Version (NIV)“Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Who are these who fly like a cloud, And like doves to their roosts?
Context of Isaiah 60:8
6Caravans of camels will cover your land — young camels of Midian and Ephah — all of them will come from Sheba. They will carry gold and frankincense and proclaim the praises of the Lord. 7All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on my altar as an acceptable sacrifice. I will glorify my beautiful house. Who are these who fly like a cloud, like doves to their shelters? 9Yes, the coasts and islands will wait for me with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from far away, their silver and gold with them, for the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, who has glorified you. 10Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in my wrath, yet I will show mercy to you with my favor.
Read all of Isaiah 60Isaiah 60:8 word by word
מִי־אֵ֖לֶּה כָּעָ֣ב תְּעוּפֶ֑ינָה וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים אֶל־אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 60:8
- Isaiah 60:4Raise your eyes and look around: they all gather and come to you; your sons will come from far away, and your daughters on the hips of nursing mothers.
- Isaiah 45:22Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other.
- Luke 13:29They will come from east and west, from north and south, to share the banquet in the kingdom of God.
- Revelation 7:9After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.
- Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,
- Genesis 8:8Then he sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth’s surface had gone down,
Commentaries on Isaiah 60:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8And 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 , "with their young;" they read אפרחיהם ephrocheyhem, nearer to the latter than to the present reading. - L.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Who are these that fly as a cloud? - In multitudes so numerous, that they appear as a dense cloud. The prophet, in vision, sees a vast multitude coming to Jerusalem, or hastening to embrace the true religion - so numerous as to excite surprise, and to lead to the question, Who can they be? (compare Isaiah 49:21.) It is not uncommon to compare a multitude of persons to a cloud. Thus Livy (xxxv. 49), Rex contra peditum equitumque nubes jactat. Thus in…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. The prophet, seeing in vision new hosts approaching quickly like a cloud of doves, asks who they are.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 60
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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