Isaiah 60:15 - Exposition

Thou hast been forsaken and hated (comp. Isaiah 54:7 ; Isaiah 62:4 ). Zion has been a wife repudiated for her adulteries, "forsaken" by her husband, and the object of his just "hate." So that no man went through thee. The mixed metaphor is awkward, but readily intelligible. Zion is at once a city and a wife. As a wife, she is "hated and forsaken," as a city, no man goes through her. An eternal excellency (comp. Isaiah 59:21 , and see the Homiletics on the passage).