Isaiah 60:8

"All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house."

Key Reflection

This verse envisions a future gathering where the resources and people, symbolized by the flocks of Kedar and the rams of Nebaioth, will come to serve God and his people in Jerusalem, now representing the church. Their offerings, both material and spiritual, will be accepted and used to beautify God's dwelling place, reflecting the transformation from scattering to gathering and worship.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Who 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? (compareIsaiah 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 inHebrews 12:1, the number of witnesses who are said to encompass Christians is compared to a cloud (νέφος μαρτύρωνnephosmarturōn). So Virgil (Geor. iv. 60) compares a swarm of bees to a cloud -obscuramque trahi vento mirabere nubem.

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