Isaiah 60:1–2

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Thus says the LORD: In a time of favor I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you; I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,[139] to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages; 9 saying to the prisoners, “Come out,” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves.”

79. God will not only deliver the people as a whole but also open individual eyes that were blind and free captives of sin. In keeping with this, in Isaiah a voice of praise to the Lord is recorded and the Lord’s ultimate victory is described

Verse to Remember: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (

Jesus stands up and is handed a scroll from Isaiah. Unrolling it, He turns to one of the Messianic passages, Isaiah 61:1–2,