Albert Barnes Commentary Isaiah 60:14

"And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel." — Isaiah 60:14 (ASV)

The sons of those who afflicted you - In the previous verses, the prophet had said that strangers and foreigners would become tributary to the true religion. Here, to give variety and interest to the description, he says that even the descendants of those who had oppressed them would become tributary to them and acknowledge them as favored by Yahweh.

Shall come bending to you - They shall come in time in a posture of humiliation and respect. In regard to the fulfillment of this, we may observe:

1. That there was a partial fulfillment of it in the conquest of Babylon. The sons, the descendants of those who had destroyed Jerusalem and led the Jews into captivity, were constrained to acknowledge them and, under Cyrus, to lead them back to the land of their fathers (see the notes at Isaiah 14:1-2).
2. It has often occurred, in times of persecution, that the immediate descendants of the persecutors, and indeed by means of the persecution, became converted to the true religion and acknowledged the God of those whom they had persecuted to be the true God.
3. It often occurs in times when there is no open and public persecution. Many of those now in the church are the children or descendants of those who had been the enemies of the gospel. They themselves did all that could be done, by their lives and examples, to train their children in opposition to it. But the sovereign mercy of God intervened, and from such, He selected heralds of salvation and preachers of righteousness to a lost world, or those who should become shining lights in the more obscure walks of the Christian life.

And all those who despised you - There will yet be a universal acknowledgment of the true religion, even in those nations that have spurned the gospel. This does not mean that all who have ever despised the true religion shall be converted and saved, but that there shall be a universal acknowledgment that it is of God and that the church is under His care. See an explanation of this sentiment in the notes at Isaiah 45:23.

At the soles of your feet - In a posture of the utmost reverence and submission (compare the notes at Isaiah 49:23).

And they shall call you - They shall honor you as the favored of the Lord, as the abode of the true God .

The Zion ... - The Zion, or the royal court where the holy God who is worshipped in Israel dwells.