Isa 60:6-9 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 6. The praises of the Lord -"And the praise of JEHOVAH."] Thirty-three MSS. and three editions have uthehillath , in the singular number; and so read the ancient versions, and one of my own MSS.

‏ Isaiah 60:6-9

Verse 6. The praises of the Lord-"And the praise of JEHOVAH."] Thirty-three MSS. and three editions have uthehillath, in the singular number; and so read the ancient versions, and one of my own MSS.

Verse 7. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee] Vitringa on the place understands their ministering, and ascending or going up on the altar, as offering themselves voluntarily: ipsi se, non expectato sacerdote alto, gloriae et sanctificationi divini nominis ultro ac libenter oblaturi. "They, waiting for no priest, go and freely offer themselves to the glory and sanctification of the sacred name." This gives a very elegant and poetical turn to the image. It was a general notion that prevailed with sacrificers among the heathen, that the victim's being brought without reluctance to the altar was a good omen; and the contrary a bad one. Sabinos petit aliquanto tristior; quod sacrificanti hostia aufugerat. Sueton. Titus, cap. x. Accessit dirum omen, profugus altaribus tauris. "It was an omen of dreadful portent when the victim fled away from the altar." Tacit. Hist. iii. 56.-L.

Verse 8. And as the doves to their windows-"And like doves upon the wing?"] Instead of el, to, forty-two MSS. of Kennicott's, and one of mine, have al, upon. For arubboteyhem, their windows, read ebrotheyhem, their wings, transposing a letter.-Houbigant. The Septuagint render it συννεοσσοις, "with their young;" they read ephrocheyhem, nearer to the latter than to the present reading.-L.

Verse 9. The ships of Tarshish first-"The ships of Tarshish among the first"] For barishonah twenty-five MSS. and the Syriac read kebarishonah, "as at the first." The ships of Tarshish AS at the first; that is, as they brought gold and silver in the days of Solomon.