The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:
Parallel translations
- WEB The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;
- BSB The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
- NKJV The Lord said, “I will bring back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
- NASB The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
- NLT The Lord says, “I will bring my enemies down from Bashan; I will bring them up from the depths of the sea.
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Quick answer
God promises to bring his people back from every extreme place of danger, whether the heights of Bashan or the depths of the sea. No situation is beyond his reach to rescue or to bring enemies to justice.
Overview
The Lord declares he will retrieve his own from the most distant and perilous places, pictured by lofty Bashan and the deep sea. The same all-reaching power that gathers his people also drags out his enemies for judgment, as the next verse shows. This sweeping sovereignty foreshadows the gospel reach of God, who in Christ seeks and saves the lost wherever they are found.
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 21:33And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
- Ezek 36:24For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
- Exod 14:29But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Isa 11:11–16And 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.
- Exod 14:22And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Amos 9:2–3Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
- Isa 51:10–11Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
- 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.
- Jer 23:5–8Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
- Hos 1:10–11Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
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