How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings - i:e., The advent of such a herald seen on the distant "mountains" (notes, ; ; Isaiah 25:6; ), running in haste with the long-expected good tidings, is most grateful to the desolated city ().

Good tidings ... that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth - only partially applying to the return from Babylon. Fully and antitypically, the Gospel (Luke 2:10), "beginning at Jerusalem," (), "the city of the great King" (), where Messiah shall, at the final restoration of Israel, 'reign' as peculiarly Zion's God ("Thy God reigneth:" cf. ).

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