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.
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.
- 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.
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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 29:14I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
- Ezek 36:24For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
- Ps 147:2Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
- Lam 3:32For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Ezek 34:12–13As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
- Zech 8:7–8Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
- Lam 3:22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
- Jer 31:10“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
- Jer 32:37–44“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
- Rom 11:31even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.
- Rom 11:23They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- Isa 56:8The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, besides his own who are gathered.”
- Ps 106:45–47He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Rom 11:26and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- Ps 126:1–4A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
- Ezra 1:1–4Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
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