The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Parallel translations
- WEB A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
- BSB A remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob—to the Mighty God.
- NKJV The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, To the Mighty God.
- NASB A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
- NLT A remnant will return; yes, the remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God.
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Quick answer
A remnant of Jacob will return to the mighty God. Out of judgment God preserves a believing people.
Overview
This verse echoes the name of Isaiah's son Shear-jashub ('a remnant shall return,' 7:3). Beyond geographic return from exile, it signals spiritual return to 'the mighty God' — a title Isaiah also gives to the coming Messiah (9:6). The remnant theme assures that God's covenant purposes never fail even amid devastating discipline.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- 2 Cor 3:14–16But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
- Acts 26:20But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
- Isa 65:8–9Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
- Isa 19:22And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
- Hos 14:1O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Hos 7:16They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
- Hos 7:10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
- Isa 9:13For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Isa 7:3Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
- Hos 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
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