Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
- BSB Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
- NKJV Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her penitents with righteousness.
- NASB ¶Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.
- NLT Zion will be restored by justice; those who repent will be revived by righteousness.
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Quick answer
Zion and her penitents will be redeemed with justice and righteousness. Salvation comes through God's righteous, just dealing.
Overview
Redemption here is grounded in God's own justice and righteousness, not the people's merit. The 'converts' or penitents are those who turn back to Him. This redemption is finally accomplished in Christ, in whom God is both just and the justifier of the believing (Romans 3:26).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Isa 62:12And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
- Isa 5:16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
- Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
- Isa 45:21–25Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
- Eph 1:7–8In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
- Rom 11:26–27And 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:
- 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- 1 Pet 1:18–19Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
- Rom 3:24–26Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
- 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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