Isaiah 24:23

the moon shall be confounded … ashamed i.e. shall "pale their ineffectual fires" before the light of Jehovah's presence (see ch. Isaiah 60:19). A punishmentof the sun and moon, as representatives of the "host of heaven," is not to be thought of. The words "moon" and "sun" are poetic, signifying respectively "the white" and "the hot." (Cf. ch. Isaiah 30:26)

the lord of hosts shall reign Lit. "hath proclaimed Himself king."

before his ancients gloriously Render with R.V. marg. before his ancients (elders) shall be glory. There is an allusion to the Theophany seen by the seventy elders of Israel at Mount Sinai, recorded in Exodus 24:9-10. It is significant that the representatives of the redeemed community who stand nearest to Jehovah are not a king and princes, as in ch. Isaiah 32:1, nor priests, as in Ezekiel's Temple-vision, but a council of elders.