8 "Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their nests?
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?
8 "What's that we see in the distance, a cloud on the horizon, like doves darkening the sky?
8 "Who are these who fly like a cloud, And like doves to their roosts?
8 "And what do I see flying like clouds to Israel, like doves to their nests?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 60:8
Commentary on Isaiah 60:1-8
(Read Isaiah 60:1-8)
As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light is come. And if God's glory is seen upon us to our honour, we ought, not only with our lips, but in our lives, to return its praise. We meet with nothing in the history of the Jews which can be deemed a fulfilment of the prophecy in this chapter; we must conclude it relates principally to future events. It predicts the purity and enlargement of the church. The conversion of souls is here described. They fly to Christ, to the church, to the word and ordinances, as doves to their own home; thither they fly for refuge and shelter, thither they fly for rest. What a pleasant sight to see poor souls hastening to Christ!