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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Jer 29:14And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
- Ezek 36:24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
- Ps 147:2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
- Lam 3:32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Ezek 34:12–13As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Zech 8:7–8Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
- Lam 3:22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
- Jer 31:10Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
- Jer 32:37–44Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Rom 11:31Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
- Rom 11:23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
- Isa 56:8The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
- Ps 106:45–47And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Rom 11:26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- Ps 126:1–4When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
- Ezra 1:1–4Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
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