Isaiah 60:19

"Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise."

Key Reflection

This verse envisions a future where peace prevails, with violence and destruction eradicated. The city's transformed defenses are renamed "Salvation" and "Praise," symbolizing that what once protected now embodies divine deliverance and worship.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The sun shall be no more -A similar expression denoting the great prosperity and happiness of the church, occurs inIsaiah 30:26(see the note at that place). The language here is exceedingly beautiful, and the idea is plain. It is designed to foretell the great glory which would exist in the church under the Messiah; a glory compared with which all that is furnished by the sun, moon, and stars would be as nothing. Expressions singular to this, and probably derived from this, are used by John in describing the lot of heaven. ‘And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof’Revelation 21:23.

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