And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Parallel translations
- WEB They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
- BSB They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
- NKJV They will be gathered together, As prisoners are gathered in the pit, And will be shut up in the prison; After many days they will be punished.
- NASB They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.
- NLT They will be rounded up and put in prison. They will be shut up in prison and will finally be punished.
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Quick answer
These powers will be gathered like prisoners into a pit and shut up, to be dealt with after many days. Judgment is certain though its final execution is delayed.
Overview
The rebellious hosts and kings are imprisoned, awaiting a later visitation. The delay shows God's patience and the appointed timing of full judgment. It anticipates the New Testament hope that hostile powers, though restrained now, will face final reckoning.
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- Zech 9:11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
- Jer 38:6–13Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
- Isa 42:22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
- Josh 10:22–26Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
- Isa 10:4Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Josh 10:16–17But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
- Isa 24:17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Isa 2:19And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
- Ezek 38:8After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
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