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Isaiah 60:8
8“Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?
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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“And what do I see flying like clouds to Israel, like doves to their nests?
Context of Isaiah 60:8
6Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the Lord. 7All Kedar’s flocks will be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth will serve you; they will be accepted as offerings on my altar, and I will adorn my glorious temple. “Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests? 9Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor. 10“Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.
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 60:4“Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the hip.
- Isaiah 45:22“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- Luke 13:29People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.
- Revelation 7:9After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
- Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
- Genesis 8:8Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
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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