“All humanity will come to worship me from week to week and from month to month.
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.
- KJV And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
- BSB From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
- NKJV And it shall come to pass That from one New Moon to another, And from one Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
- NASB “And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from Sabbath to Sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says the Lord.
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Quick answer
All flesh will come to worship before God continually, from new moon to new moon and Sabbath to Sabbath. It matters because it promises universal, ongoing worship of the true God.
Overview
The vision culminates in all humanity gathering to worship the LORD without interruption. The regular festivals become a picture of perpetual, worldwide adoration. This anticipates the day when, through Christ, worshipers from every nation bow before God, fulfilled in the worship of the new creation (Revelation 15:4).
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Cross-references · 15
- Ezek 46:1Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
- Ps 86:9All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
- Col 2:16–17Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
- Ezek 46:6On the day of the new moon it shall be a young bull without defect, and six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without defect:
- Zech 14:16It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
- Rev 15:4Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
- Zech 8:20–23Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
- Zech 14:14Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
- Ps 65:2You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
- Mal 1:11For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Isa 1:13–14Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.
- Ps 81:3–4Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- John 4:23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
- 2 Kgs 4:23He said, “Why would you want go to him today? It is not a new moon or a Sabbath.” She said, “It’s alright.”
- Isa 19:21Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes, they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and will vow a vow to Yahweh, and will perform it.
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