then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
Parallel translations
- WEB that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
- KJV That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
- NKJV that the Lord your God will bring you back from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you.
- NASB then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
- NLT then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you back from all the nations where he has scattered you.
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Quick answer
God will then restore them from captivity and gather them with compassion. God's mercy moves him to regather his repentant people.
Overview
Upon Israel's repentance, the Lord promises to reverse the exile, having 'compassion' and gathering them from the nations. God's heart toward his straying people is mercy, not abandonment. This regathering theme runs to its climax in Christ, the Good Shepherd who gathers his scattered sheep into one flock under one Shepherd.
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Cross-references · 16
- Jer 29:14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
- Ezek 36:24For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
- Ps 147:2The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.
- Lam 3:32Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
- Ezek 34:12–13As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
- Zech 8:7–8This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.
- Lam 3:22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
- Jer 31:10Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
- Jer 32:37–44I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
- Rom 11:31so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.
- Rom 11:23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Isa 56:8Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
- Ps 106:45–47And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Rom 11:26And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
- Ps 126:1–4A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- Ezra 1:1–4In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:
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