Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
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- KJV Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
- BSB This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.
- NKJV “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Behold, I will save My people from the land of the east And from the land of the west;
- NASB The Lord of armies says this: ‘Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west;
- NLT “This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: You can be sure that I will rescue my people from the east and from the west.
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God will save His people from the east and the west, regathering the scattered exiles. He will bring His dispersed people home from every direction.
Overview
The promise of regathering from all lands fulfills the hope of return from exile and reverses the scattering of 7:14. The worldwide sweep, east and west, hints at the wider ingathering of God's people from all nations. It foreshadows the gospel's gathering of believers from every corner of the earth into one people (John 11:52).
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Cross-references · 15
- Jer 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
- 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.
- Amos 9:14–15I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
- 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 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 43:5–6Don’t be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.
- Ps 50:1A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
- Isa 59:19So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
- Isa 11:11–16It 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.
- Rom 11:25–27For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
- Hos 11:10–11They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
- Isa 66:19–20“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
- Ezek 37:19–25tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
- Ps 113:3From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
- Ps 107:2–3Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
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