Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
The happy and glorious state of the church is here further foretold, referring principally and ultimately to the Christian church and the spiritual peace of that, but under the type of that little gleam of outward peace which the Jews sometimes enjoyed after their return out of captivity. This is here spoken of, I. As compared with what it had been.
Commenting on Isaiah 60:15-22
Whereas thou hast been forsaken,.... Seemingly forsaken of God; thought to be so by herself, which was matter of complaint; and by her enemies, which to them was matter of joy; the Lord not appearing for her immediate relief, and for her deliverance out of the hands of her persecutors: and hated: of all men, of wicked and profane sinners, and of carnal professors, and...
forsaken-- (Psa 78:60-61). no man went through thee--Thy land was so desolate that no traveller, or caravan, passed through thee; true only of Israel, not true of the Church (Lam 1:4). excellency--glory, that is, for ever honored.