Isaiah 56:8

The Lord who gathers Israel's outcasts promises to gather still others to them. It matters because God's saving ingathering extends beyond Israel.

Cross-references · 22

• John 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
• Isa 54:7“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
• Isa 60:3–11Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
• Zech 10:8–10I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.
• Eph 2:14–16For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
• Jer 31:10“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
• Jer 30:17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
• Isa 66:18–21“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
• Gen 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
• Eph 1:10to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;
• Mic 4:6“In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
• John 11:52and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
• Isa 11:11–12It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Ps 147:2Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
• Ps 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
• Hos 1:11The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.
• Isa 49:12Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”
• Isa 27:12–13It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
• Isa 43:6I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth —
• Isa 49:22Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and lift up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
• Ps 107:2–3Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
• Zeph 3:18–20I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

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