If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
Parallel translations
- WEB If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
- BSB Even if you have been banished to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from there.
- NKJV If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.
- NASB If any of your scattered countrymen are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.
- NLT Even though you are banished to the ends of the earth, the Lord your God will gather you from there and bring you back again.
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Quick answer
Even from the farthest reaches, God will gather his outcasts home. No distance can place the repentant beyond God's saving reach.
Overview
Moses assures that even if exiles are scattered to 'the uttermost parts of the heavens,' God will gather and bring them back. No remoteness frustrates God's restoring grace. This sweeping promise of ingathering anticipates the gospel's reach to the ends of the earth, as Christ gathers his people from every nation to himself.
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- Neh 1:9But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.
- Ezek 39:25–29Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
- Isa 11:11–16And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
- Deut 28:64And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
- Isa 43:6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
- Zeph 3:19–20Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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