Isaiah 60:17

For brass … gold &c. Cf. ch. Isaiah 9:10; 1 Kings 10:21; 1 Kings 10:27, and the opposite experience, 1 Kings 14:26 f.

I will also make, &c. Render: and I will appoint Peace as thy government, and Righteousness as thy ruler. The word for officersis an abstract noun (like "management" or "magistracy") used in a concrete sense; exactorsis a plural of majesty, precisely as in ch. Isaiah 3:12. Its use here is an oxymoron; it denotes a tyrannous, arbitrary ruler (see on ch. Isaiah 53:7), the idea conveyed being that the tyranny of the present shall be replaced by the genial rule of Righteousness. In other words, Peace and Righteousness (personified qualities, as ch. Isaiah 59:14) shall be the governing powers in the new Jerusalem. The other rendering, "I will make thy governors peaceful" &c. (so virtually the LXX.) is grammatically possible, but yields a sense feeble and unsatisfying.