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 10:16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
• Isa 54:7For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
• Isa 60:3–11And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
• Zech 10:8–10I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
• Eph 2:14–16For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
• Jer 31:10Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
• Jer 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
• Isa 66:18–21For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
• Gen 49:10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
• Eph 1:10That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
• Mic 4:6In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
• John 11:52And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
• Isa 11:11–12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Ps 147:2The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
• Ps 106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
• Hos 1:11Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
• Isa 49:12Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
• Isa 27:12–13And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
• Isa 43:6I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
• Isa 49:22Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
• Ps 107:2–3Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
• Zeph 3:18–20I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

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