At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
Parallel translations
- WEB In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
- BSB In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
- NKJV In that day a man will look to his Maker, And his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
- NASB On that day man will look to his Maker And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.
- NLT Then at last the people will look to their Creator and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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In that day people will turn their eyes to their Maker and look to the Holy One of Israel. Judgment leads the survivors back to God.
Overview
The chastening of judgment produces a turning of hearts away from idols toward the true God who made them. Affliction becomes the means by which the remnant looks to its Maker. This gracious purpose behind discipline foreshadows the gospel call to look to the Lord alone for salvation.
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Cross-references · 18
- Mic 7:7Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
- 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.
- Hos 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
- Hos 14:1–3O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Jer 3:18–23In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
- Isa 10:20–21And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
- 2 Chr 35:17–18And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
- Isa 29:18–19And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
- Isa 22:11Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
- Judg 10:15–16And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
- 2 Chr 30:10–11So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
- 2 Chr 31:1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- Isa 29:24They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
- 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.
- Jer 3:12–14Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
- Isa 24:14–15They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
- Jer 31:4–10Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
- 2 Chr 30:18–20For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
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