Isaiah 60:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All nations will come to your light; mighty kings will come to see your radiance.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your radiance.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Nations will come to your light, and kings before your dawn.

NET Bible (©2006)
Nations come to your light, kings to your bright light.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Nations will come to your light, and kings will come to the brightness of your dawn.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

American King James Version
And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

American Standard Version
And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising.

Darby Bible Translation
And the nations shall walk by thy light, and kings by the brightness of thy rising.

English Revised Version
And nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

World English Bible
Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Young's Literal Translation
And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - The Gentiles shall come to thy light. Plunged in darkness themselves (ver. 2), the Gentiles shall be astonished and attracted by Israel's radiance, and shall draw near to it and seek to partake of it. Among them shall come even their "kings," drawn by the brightness of the glory (comp. Isaiah 49:23).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light,.... To the Gospel, preached in the midst of her; and to Christ, who is her light and into her church state, and partake of the prosperity and happiness of it. The Targum is,

"and nations shall walk in thy light;''

and so in Revelation 21:24, where it is interpreted of the nations of them that are saved, truly regenerated and converted persons:

and kings to the brightness of thy rising; Christ, the sun of righteousness, will rise upon her; and this being the morning of the latter day glory, the church will rise as a bright morning star; and such be the evidence and lustre of Gospel truths and ordinances, that kings shall he enlightened by them, and come and join themselves unto her, and walk with her in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. Some of this high rank and dignity have been called, and but a few; but in those times the instances will be many, even all kings shall serve and worship the Lord, Psalm 72:11.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. (Isa 2:3; 11:10; 43:6; 49:22; 66:12).

kings—(Isa 49:7, 23; 52:15).

thy rising—rather, "thy sun-rising," that is, "to the brightness that riseth upon thee."

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Future Glory for Zion
1Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen on you. 2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. 3And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. …

Revelation 21:24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
Psalm 102:22 when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship the LORD.
Isaiah 2:3 Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isaiah 42:6 "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,
Isaiah 45:14 This is what the LORD says: "The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and those tall Sabeans-- they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, 'Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.'"
Isaiah 45:22 "Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 49:23 Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground; they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in me will not be disappointed."
Isaiah 54:3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities.
Isaiah 56:8 The Sovereign LORD declares-- he who gathers the exiles of Israel: "I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered."
Isaiah 62:2 The nations will see your vindication, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
Zechariah 8:22 And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the LORD Almighty and to entreat him."