Isaiah 60:20 - Exposition

Thy sun … thy moon . That which is to thee instead of sun and moon—Jehovah's brightness . The days of thy mourning shall be ended . Till the new Jerusalem descends from heaven ( Revelation 21:2 ), and Christ reigns personally over his people ( Revelation 22:5 ), the Church is always, more or less, in a state of mourning. The Bridegroom is away ( Matthew 9:15 ); his light shines upon his Church only by snatches; his Church feels itself unworthy of him—cold, unloving, stained with sin. Fasting, weeping, and mourning befit such a state of things. But in the final condition of the redeemed their mourning shall be ended, "sorrow and sighing shall have fled away" ( Isaiah 35:10 ); God shall have "wiped away all tears from their eyes" ( Revelation 21:4 ); "There shall be no more death" ( Revelation 21:4 ); "no more curse" ( Revelation 22:3 ); "neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" ( Revelation 21:4 ). The days of mourning shall be ended.