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By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families,
in their nations.
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The "Table of Nations" in Genesis 10 is not a table of Israelite tribes, but of all nations around the world, including all non-Israelite nations. |
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These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
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These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
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These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided
in the earth after the flood.
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And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
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It seems to me that the context of Genesis 12 is where Abraham came from, not where he would eventually end up (the Promised Land).
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king
of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
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These are not "Israelite" nations. |
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With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel
king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge : and afterward shall they come out with great
substance.
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This refers to the non-Israelite nation of Egypt. |
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As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
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Genesis 17 is an important chapter.
In Ishmael we see a type of the "God-fearing nations."
Part of Abraham's lineage would be the royal seed line leading to Jesus the Messiah. Even some non-Christian Jews have seen a "universalism" in the Old Testament and God's desire that Israel be a light to the non-Israelite nations. Some Christians will call this "post-millennialism" or "optimillennialism." The "nations" here are not the ten northern tribes of Israel. |
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Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations
have I made thee .
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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly twelve princes shall he beget,
and I will make him a great nation.
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Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations
of the earth shall be blessed in him?
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I see a distinction between the Abrahamic "nation" (or "nations") and the non-Abrahamic "nations." |
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But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
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Apparently Philistines, a non-Israelite nation. |
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And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
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A non-Israelite nation |
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Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
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And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou
hast obeyed my voice.
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Here we have two important and disputed words: "nation" and "earth." The word for "earth" can also be translated "land," and in some cases seems limited to the land of Israel. But it can also refer to the whole planet. In Daniel the word refers to non-Israelite
empires.
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And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
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Herod was an Edomite. |
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And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
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Understanding this verse is not strictly a matter of looking up the words in a dictionary. It is theological as much as etymological. Does God intend to bless all the nations of the earth, or only all the tribal units of the land of Israel? |
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And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations
shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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Here the kings and nations appear to be those of Jacob, and thus of Israel. |
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And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
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And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger
brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
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A reference to the northern tribes |
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So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land
of Egypt since it became a nation.
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The "eretz" of Egypt, a non-Israelite nation. |
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And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children
of Israel.
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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
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Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation
is thy people.
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See also:
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou
goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
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There is a distinction between the nations that descended from Abraham and all the other nations. |
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And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth [eretz], nor in any nation:
and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
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For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go
up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
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Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
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Non-Israelite nations |
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That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
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Pretty clearly all these references to "gentiles" are references to non-Israelite nations. |
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And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
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Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities
waste.
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And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up .
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But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen,
that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
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I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.
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Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak,
saying, Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
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The non-Israelite nations heard how God treated Israel. |
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For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
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Not reckoned among the non-Israelite nations. |
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God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies,
and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
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Israel distinguished from the other nations. |
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And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations;
but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say,
Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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The Israeli people distinguished from all other peoples. The non-Israelite nations did not receive God's Law the same way Israel did. |
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For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God
is in all things that we call upon him for?
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And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law,
which I set before you this day?
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And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen,
whither the LORD shall lead you.
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Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations,
by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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All of these verses see the Gentiles as non-Israelite nations. |
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To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance,
as it is this day.
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When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goes to possess it, and hath cast out many nations
before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
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If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
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And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little:
thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
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As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice
of the LORD your God.
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Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations
greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
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Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness
the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD
doth drive them out from before thee.
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Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations
the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier
and greater than they.
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Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations
and mightier than yourselves.
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Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods,
upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
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When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and
thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;
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Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying,
How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
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For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou
shalt not borrow ; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
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When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king
over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
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When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
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For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy
God hath not suffered thee so to do.
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When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy
God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt,
and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
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And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour;
and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken .
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Pretty clearly non-Israelite nations.
Notice also the use of the phrases "our God" and "your God." The Gentiles not only knew of God's Law from the testimony of their conscience, but they had direct contact with God's Revelation to Israel. The true history of mankind was known to all mankind. God's supernatural activity in Israel was known to the Gentiles. For example, when the Israeli spies entered the Promised Land, a Canaanite prostitute said to them:Rahab used the name "YHWH" or "Jehovah," the specific name of the God of Abraham and Israel, not just a generic god. There is abundant evidence in the pages of the Bible that the Gentiles had heard (or read) the specifics of the Law God revealed to Israel. "Special Revelation," not just "General Revelation."
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And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations
of the earth:
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The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work
of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow .
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The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known;
and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
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The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth,
as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
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A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
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And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest:
but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
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(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
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Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD
our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be
among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
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Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great
anger?
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And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
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The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before
thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said .
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When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam,
he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
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For "children" of Israel, the LXX and Dead Sea Scrolls have "sons of God." This makes sense, as other passages speak of guardian angelic [fallen] beings over the non-Israelite nations. |
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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish
nation.
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For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
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"Goy" in this verse is Israel. |
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Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries,
and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
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And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites
passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
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"people" = Israel |
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And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men
of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew
them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole .
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"people" = Israel |
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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies
. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
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The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal,
one;
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And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD
your God is he that hath fought for you.
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Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan,
with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
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Classic concept of "Gentiles" as non-Jews, with emphasis on religious differences |
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That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods,
nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
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For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath
been able to stand before you unto this day.
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Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to
you:
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Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but
they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land
which the LORD your God hath given you.
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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant
which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
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Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
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And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host
was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
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And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth
of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
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But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host
of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left .
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And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
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That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a
people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou
redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
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Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations
which he subdued ;
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Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I
knew not shall serve me.
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Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
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For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol:
and his fame was in all nations round about.
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Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come
in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love .
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And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast
out before the children of Israel.
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As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord
hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
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had made diligent search for him (1
Kgs. 18:10),
had offered rewards to any one that would discover him, sent spies into
every tribe and lordship
of his own dominions, as some understand it, or, as others, into all the neighbouring nations and kingdoms that were in alliance with him; Matthew Henry |
| 1 Kings 8:41-43 41 “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake 42 (for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple, 43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples [Strong's #5971 - עַם] of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people [Strong's #5971 - עַם] Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name. | Not strictly a "gentile" [goy] verse, but one that sheds light on the thinking of the Old Testament. It is clearly international in focus, not limited to the nation of Israel. See also 1 Samuel 17:46; 2 Kings 19:19; 2 Chronicles 6:33; Psalm 22:27; 67:2; 72:10-11; 86:9; Isaiah 11:9; Revelation 11:15. |
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And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he
smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
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Syrians, not Israelites |
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But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen,
whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
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All of these verses reflect the traditional understanding of "gentiles" as non-Israel, with emphasis on their false gods and unGodly behavior, which Israel should abhor.
In 2 Kings 19, Hezekiah is dealing with international relations among neighboring non-Israelite nations. They are idolatrous nations, and Hezekiah wants to see them admit that YHWH (the God of Israel) alone is God, even over all non-Israelite nations. |
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And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel,
and of the kings of Israel, which they had made .
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And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD
to anger :
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And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and
became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should
not do like them.
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Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities
of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God
of the land.
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Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,
every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt .
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They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
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So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did
their fathers, so do they unto this day.
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Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
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Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said: “O Lord God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
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Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
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Now therefore, O Lord our God, I pray, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord God, You alone.”
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out before the children of Israel.
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But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children
of Israel.
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16 So David did as God commanded him, and they drove back the army of the Philistines from Gibeon as far as Gezer.17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear
of him upon all nations.
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And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
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Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.
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Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth
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This whole chapter contrasts Israel with the other nations. |
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And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy
name, and glory in thy praise.
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And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people,
to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people,
whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
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Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations;
from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
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And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.
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And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?
and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? 7 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the
descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
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Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen
whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands
any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
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Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand,
that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?
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Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom
was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
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He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations
of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
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And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight
of all nations from thenceforth.
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But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
had cast out before the children of Israel.
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So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen,
whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and
polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
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And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen
of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
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And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren?
or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
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Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach
of the heathen our enemies ?
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Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen
that are about us.
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Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause
thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
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And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes:
for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
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Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like
him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin .
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He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble ? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against
a man only:
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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made : in the net which they hid is their own foot
taken .
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The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
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Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
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The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
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Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have
not known shall serve me.
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Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
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All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
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For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.
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The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices
of the people of none effect .
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Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
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This could be Israel, or any nation. |
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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust
man.
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out .
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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See also:
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The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted
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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
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God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
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Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not
merciful to any wicked transgressors . Selah.
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But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision .
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He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
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He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
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That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
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Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
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His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations
shall call him blessed .
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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel
to dwell in their tents.
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[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple
have they defiled ; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen
in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed .
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Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance
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All nations whom thou hast made shall command worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
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He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct ? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
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Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
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Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth : the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge
the people righteously.
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The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
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So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
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When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
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And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
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That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
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To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
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But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
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And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
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Save 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.
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He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
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He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
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The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
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O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
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All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
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Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD
hath done great things for them.
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Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
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The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
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He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
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To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
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Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters : they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
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And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
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And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
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25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. 26 And he will lift up an ensign
to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall
come with speed swiftly:
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Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land
of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
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[R.T.] France notes that referring to Galilee as the area of the Gentiles was appropriate both when Isaiah and when Matthew were written. While Galilee had a large Jewish population the majority of the people were then Gentiles. The mention of the Gentiles is part of the
important theme in Matthew of showing that Jesus' message is meant for both Jews and Gentiles. France notes that in Matthew there is a common pattern of Jesus being persecuted by the Jews, as had happened with the arrest of John the Baptist, but being turned by this persecution to more receptive Gentile audiences. France, R.T. The Gospel According to Matthew: an Introduction and Commentary. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 1985. Matthew 4:14–15 |
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Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
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I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil,
and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
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And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles
seek : and his rest shall be glorious.
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And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the
four corners of the earth.
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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms
of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,
and none hindereth .
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Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones
all the kings of the nations.
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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
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All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
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What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people
shall trust in it.
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For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen
have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
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That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers,
to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation
meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled !
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In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled,
to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
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And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
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Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
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And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
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Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in .
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Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified:
thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
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And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream
of a night vision.
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It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man
dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of
all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
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And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity:
and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err .
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At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered
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Come near, ye nations, to hear ; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear,
and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
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For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered them to the slaughter.
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Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles
as a very little thing.
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All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
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Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings?
he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
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Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth ; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
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Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things?
let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
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Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations
before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
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Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood
of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save .
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And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee
for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
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Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation
abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD
that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
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Thus 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.
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The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends
of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
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So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had
not heard shall they consider .
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For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited
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Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of
the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
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Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance
of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
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And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
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Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be
converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
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Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles,
and that their kings may be brought .
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For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea, those nations shall
be utterly wasted .
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Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy
Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
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A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it
in his time.
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But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
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And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge
them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed .
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For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will
cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
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And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name,
which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
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As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
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I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once?
for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream:
then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
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For 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.
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And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul,
and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory;
and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
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And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots,
and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children
of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
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Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
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See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down,
and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant .
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Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit
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At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of
the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
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But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?
and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
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And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations
shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory .
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The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make
thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant .
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Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice
against the cities of Judah.
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Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation,
it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say .
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Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be
raised from the sides of the earth.
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But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth
is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
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Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them,
till I have consumed them.
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Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness:
for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen
are dismayed at them.
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Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations,
and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
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But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth
shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob,
and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate .
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But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.
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Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain ? or can the heavens give showers?
art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
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O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles
shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and
things wherein there is no profit .
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At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
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If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
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And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very
horrible thing.
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And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD
done thus unto this great city?
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and
will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment,
and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon
seventy years.
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And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation,
saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
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And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
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For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and
according to the works of their own hands.
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For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations,
to whom I send thee, to drink it.
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Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had
sent me:
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A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations,
he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind
shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
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Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
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And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many
nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
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And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and
that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish,
saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
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But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in
their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
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Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation
that will not serve the king of Babylon?
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And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah
went his way.
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations,
that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
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And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places
whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive .
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And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse,
and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
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For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of
thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished .
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For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say,
O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
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Hear 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.
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If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation
before me for ever.
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And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth,
which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
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Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off
? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
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Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations,
from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
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But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations,
whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
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In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell,
that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
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The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
and they are fallen both together.
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Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I
have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished .
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There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation.
Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
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I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against
her, and rise up to the battle.
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For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
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Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates
nor bars, which dwell alone.
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And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there
shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come .
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Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon
is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are
broken in pieces .
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For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove,
they shall depart, both man and beast.
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For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country:
and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken : their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
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Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed : behold, the hindermost of the nations
shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken ! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up
from the coasts of the earth.
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At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
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Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations
have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad .
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Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
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Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations
against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough
caterpillers.
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Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land
of his dominion.
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How is Sheshach taken ! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised ! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more
unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall .
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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations,
and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she
findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
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The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,
whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
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Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles:
the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
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They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen,
They shall no more sojourn there.
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As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the
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And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very
day.
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And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries
that are round about her.
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And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round
about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes,
neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
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Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by
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So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about
thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
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Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
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And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which
hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
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Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong
to cease ; and their holy places shall be defiled .
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And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen
that are round about you.
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Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries,
yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come .
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And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
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But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen
whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon
thee, saith the Lord GOD.
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The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
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Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
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But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in
bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
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But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
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Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight
I brought them forth .
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I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
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And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries,
to serve wood and stone.
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I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before
the heathen.
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Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near,
and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
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And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
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And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
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I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
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Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I
will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the
heathen;
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Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as
the sea causeth his waves to come up .
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It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil
to the nations.
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Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
and they shall defile thy brightness.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight
of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
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And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among
the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations,
and will disperse them through the countries.
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It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
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For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
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He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords
against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young,
and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
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I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
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And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys
his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow,
and have left him.
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I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all
the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
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They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
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Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations,
and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
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I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries
which thou hast not known .
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By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all
of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed .
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This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for
all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations,
unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
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And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely,
and none shall make them afraid .
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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen
any more.
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Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD
was there:
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Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession
unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
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Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey
and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen,
and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to
cast it out for a prey.
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Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
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Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
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Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou
cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
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And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
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And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people
of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
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But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went
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Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's
sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went .
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And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen
shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
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For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
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And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
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Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD
have spoken it, and I will do it.
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And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
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And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king
shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any
more at all:
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And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
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To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations,
which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
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And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land,
that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
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Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen
shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
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And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I
have laid upon them.
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And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face
from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
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When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies ' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
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Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land,
and have left none of them any more there.
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Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
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And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
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And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time
of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written in the book.
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Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
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Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
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My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
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Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give
not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their
God?
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Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach
among the heathen:
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I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage
Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
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And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people
far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
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Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up:
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Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down,
O LORD.
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Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen
round about.
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Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel came !
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But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts;
and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
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For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall
not the least grain fall upon the earth.
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That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
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The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador
is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
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Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised .
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For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward
shall return upon thine own head.
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For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall
swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
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And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion,
and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
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And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
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And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount
Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
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Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
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And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion
among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces,
and none can deliver .
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And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard .
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The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf
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Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations
through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations
thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe,
though it be told you.
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For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess
the dwelling places that are not theirs.
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death,
and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence
of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
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He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains
were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
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Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
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Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
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Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD
is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant .
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Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children
of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue
of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
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The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
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And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern
shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate ; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:
their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant .
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Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations,
that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
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Gentiles, Strong's #1484 - ἔθνος
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The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond
Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
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(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek for
your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
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Non-Israelites |
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These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go
not into the way of the Gentiles, and into
any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
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Non-Israelites. Verse 6: "But go rather (instead) to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." The word "gentiles" cannot possibly be "the lost sheep of the house of Israel." |
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And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake,
for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
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Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in
whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon
him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
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Matthew (12:15-21) is quoting Isaiah 42:1–4. I doubt that any "Israel Only" advocate can quote a single peer-published Bible scholar (as distinguished from a self-published amateur Bible student) who claims that Matthew is speaking about genetic Israelites living in Asia, Italy, or Greece when he speaks of "Gentiles," or that Isaiah intended this reference. Even if Isaiah could be shown to have been speaking prophetically of Israelites who would soon be exiled, Matthew is expanding the reference to non-Israelites, just as Paul does in Romans 9. |
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And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
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And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock,
and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
| Israelites did not crucify Christ and gamble for His clothes. That was non-Israelite Romans. |
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But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes
of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great
exercise authority upon them.
| Non-Israelites. |
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Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from
you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
thereof.
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For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and
pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill
you: and ye shall be hated of all nations
for my name's sake.
| "All" nations includes non-Israelite nations. |
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And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then
shall the end come.
| This prophecy was fulfilled in the days of the Apostles, as they declared to Christians living outside Israel. |
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And before him shall be gathered all nations:
and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd
divideth his sheep from the goats:
| This is part of the same discourse as Matthew 24, where "gentiles" signified "non-Israelites." |
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Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost:
| This does not mean "teach all Israelites -- and only Israelites -- living outside Israel." |
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Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man
shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him
to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
| Romans/Non-Israelites |
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But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that
they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them;
and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
| Non-Israelites, like the Romans |
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And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My
house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?
but ye have made it a den of thieves.
| Quoting Isaiah 56:7 In the previous verse we see he is talking about
Indisputably, non-Israelites |
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For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers
places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings
of sorrows.
| Mark 13 is the same as Matthew 24 |
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And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
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A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory
of thy people Israel.
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For he loveth our nation, and he hath built
us a synagogue.
| Israel is certainly a "nation" (singular), but "the nations" (plural) are usually non-Israelite nations. So far in the New Testament, we have yet to encounter an example of "the nations" referring to the "tribes" of Israel. |
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For all these things do the nations of the world
seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
| In theory, non-Israelite nations don't have faith in God the Father. |
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For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and
spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
| Romans |
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Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
| Luke 21 is the same discourse as Matthew 24. |
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And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into
all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles
be fulfilled.
| Jesus was not predicting that Jerusalem would be trodden down by the northern tribes of Israel. |
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And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and
in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations,
with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
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And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over
them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
| Kings of non-Israelite nations. |
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And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting
the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar,
saying that he himself is Christ a King.
| nation, singular, can mean Israel. |
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And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his
name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
| including all non-Israelite nations, but not just to the Israelites living in non-Israelite nations. |
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If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on
him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our
place and nation.
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Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not.
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And this spake he not of himself: but being
high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die
for that nation;
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And not for that nation only, but that
also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
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Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation
and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
| All these occurrences of "nation" (singular) refer to Israel. |
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And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men,
out of every nation under heaven.
| nations outside of Israel |
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Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why
did the heathen rage, and the people imagine
vain things?
| non-Israelites |
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For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus,
whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with
the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
| non-Israelites "AND" the people of Israel |
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And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will
I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth,
and serve me in this place.
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Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus
[Joshua] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out
before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
| non-Israelite nations |
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But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city
used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out
that himself was some great one:
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But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he
is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before
the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
| How many "kings" were there in Israel? This refers to non-Israelite nations. |
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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth
God, and of good report among all the nation
of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into
his house, and to hear words of thee.
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But in every nation he that feareth him,
and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
| every nation, including Israel, but also all the others. |
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And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with
Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out
the gift of the Holy Ghost.
| There is no evidence in the New Testament or in extra-Biblical sources that whole tribes of Israel were uncircumcised. All 12 tribes, even those living outside Israel (James 1:1) were "devout Jews" (Acts 2:5) "earnestly serving God night and day" (Acts 26:7). All the Jews mentioned in the New Testament attended synagogues in cities throughout the world. |
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And the apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard
that the Gentiles had also received the word
of God.
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When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying,
Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted
repentance unto life.
| "also" -- in addition to Israelites |
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land
of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
| Non-Israelites |
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And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles
besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
| These were non-Israelites who feared the God of Israel and learned about Him in synagogues around the world |
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Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary
that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing
ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of
everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
| First to Israelites, then to non-Israelites. |
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For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee
to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for
salvation unto the ends of the earth.
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And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified
the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal
life believed.
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But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and
made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
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And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles,
and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone
them,
| There is no occurence of "Jew" and "gentile" in the same verse where "gentile" does not mean "non-Israelite." |
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Who in times past suffered all nations
to walk in their own ways.
| Paul speaking to non-Israelites about non-Israelite nations. |
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And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all
that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door
of faith unto the Gentiles.
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And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and
Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused
great joy unto all the brethren.
| One completely misses the point of Acts 15 if one says "gentiles" = northern Israelites. |
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And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto
them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while
ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles
by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
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Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and
Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought
among the Gentiles by them.
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Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles,
to take out of them a people for his name.
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That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all
the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,
saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
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Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles
are turned to God:
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And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders
and brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles
in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
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And hath made of one blood all nations
of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
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And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said
unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I
am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
| turning from Israelites to non-Israelites |
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And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and
bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith
the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind
the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into
the hands of the Gentiles.
| The Jews did not deliver him to the northern tribes of Israel. |
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And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God
had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
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And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews
which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying
that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
| Notice that the dispersed Israelites ("among the gentiles") are called "Jews," though some say the word "Jew" can only be used to speak of the Southern tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. Second, Paul took the men into the temple to obey Jewish customs. So it was not his practice to tell Israelites not to be circumcised. So "gentiles" in Acts 15 is not talking about "lost tribes" Israelites. |
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As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written
and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves
from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
| Non-Israelites who believe. |
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And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send
thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
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And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that
by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done
unto this nation by thy providence,
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Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered,
Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this
nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
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Now after many years I came to bring alms to
my nation, and offerings.
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My manner of life from my youth, which was
at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem,
know all the Jews;
| These verses all speak of a singular nation, Israel. Different from "nations," plural. |
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Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles,
unto whom now I send thee,
| Non-Israelites |
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But shewed ( first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and
throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles,
that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet
for repentance.
| Non-Israelites |
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That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from
the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
| Non-Israelites |
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But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not
that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
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Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent
unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it
| Be it known therefore unto you, Jews/Israelites, that salvation is for non-Israelites |
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By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience
to the faith among all nations, for his
name:
| "all" nations, including non-Israelite nations. |
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Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that
oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that
I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other
Gentiles.
| "other" gentiles -- like those in Greece, Asia, and other nations outside Israel |
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For when the Gentiles, which have not
the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not
the law, are a law unto themselves:
| I don't think there's any evidence that Israelites living in Judea claimed that Israelites living outside Judea had no moral obligation to obey God's Law. |
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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles
through you, as it is written.
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Paul says, "As it is written," Where? |
| Isaiah 52:5 So now what have I here”— this is the Lord’s declaration— “that My people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail”— this is the Lord’s declaration— “and My name is continually blasphemed all day long. Ezekiel 36:20 When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’ | |
| It is non-Israelites who are pointing out the hypocrisy of getting circumcised but being so unGodly that God has to destroy them. Israelites who are alleged by IO to be uncircumcised would hardly care what the people they left were doing. | |
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Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
| I don't think there's any evidence that Israelites living in Judea claimed that God was not the God of Israelites living outside Judea. That's not what Paul is arguing against. |
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(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth
those things which be not as though they were.
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Who against hope believed in hope, that he
might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken,
So shall thy seed be.
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Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only,
but also of the Gentiles?
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which
followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith.
| Righteousness outside of temple rituals. |
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But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses
saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people,
and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
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Check Deuteronomy 32:21. Not talking about Israelites. |
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I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid : but rather
through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke
them to jealousy.
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Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing
of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their
fulness?
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For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I
am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles
be come in.
| There is no evidence of a rivalry between northern and southern kingdoms in Paul's day, such that Judahites would have a negative emotional reaction to salvation being extended to northern tribes. |
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And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy;
as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among
the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
| 2 Samuel 22:50 Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name. Psalm 18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name. |
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And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with
his people.
| Deuteronomy 32:43 Rejoice, you nations, concerning His people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants. He will take vengeance on His adversaries; He will purify His land and His people. |
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And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles;
and laud him, all ye people.
| Psalm 117:1 Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Laud Him, all you peoples! |
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And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and
he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall
the Gentiles trust.
| Isaiah 11:10 “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, Who shall stand as a banner to the people; For the Gentiles shall seek Him, And His resting place shall be glorious.” |
| There's no thought in any of these verses of Israelites. The subject is non-Israelites in nations other than Israel. | |
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That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles
might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
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For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ
hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles
obedient, by word and deed,
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It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if
the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is
also to minister unto them in carnal things.
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Who have for my life laid down their own necks:
unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all
the churches of the Gentiles.
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But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according
to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations
for the obedience of faith:
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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication
as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father's wife.
| Why would Paul hold up as a standard members of the northern tribes, having completely left Judaism, adopted paganism, and not even getting circumcised or practicing Judaism in any way? Why would they be scandalized by this behavior? Why should we hesitate to assume that these are non-Israelites? |
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But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice
to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye
should have fellowship with devils.
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Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto
these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
| The Bible never describes the northern tribes as being led by idols. On the other hand, the Bible describes the Gentile nations as being governed by idols. This is a huge theme in the Bible, and shows that "gentiles" in the NT is the non-Israelite nations, not the northern tribes.
Thesis 22: The Division of the Nations Naked Bible 95: David Burnett – Resurrection and the Death of the Gods |
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In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by
mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in
the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils
among false brethren;
| Why would Paul single out members of the northern tribes as those who put him in peril? |
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To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him
among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh
and blood:
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And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel
which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately
to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in
vain.
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(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty
in me toward the Gentiles:)
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And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be
pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and
Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen,
and they unto the circumcision.
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For before that certain came from James, he did eat with
the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and
separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
| Was Peter eating with Greeks and Romans, or was he eating with descendants of the northern tribes? How did he know they were members of the northern tribes if such people outwardly resembled Greeks and Romans? |
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But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to
the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou,
being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why
compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
| Why would Paul oppose any effort to make Israelite descendants of the northern tribes live like Israelite descendants of the southern tribes? |
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We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
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And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen
through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall
all nations be blessed.
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That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.
| Why would the blessings of Abraham fall on some tribes but not others? |
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Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles
in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called
the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
| Pay close attention to Paul's argument in this letter. |
| Ephesians 2:12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. | |
| This is not talking about descendants of the northern tribes, who, if known to be such, would have been accepted as Jews. | |
| Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. | |
| There was never a "wall of separation" between northern and southern tribes, as there was between Israel and gentile nations. | |
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For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for
you Gentiles,
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That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and
partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
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Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given,
that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye
henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk,
in the vanity of their mind,
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To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this
mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ
in you, the hope of glory:
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Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come
upon them to the uttermost.
| There is no evidence that descendants of the southern tribes would have obstructed Paul's efforts to convert descendants of northern tribes to Christianity. But there is evidence that Judaizers or apostate Jews of both northern and southern tribes would have obstructed Paul's efforts to evangelize non-Israelites. |
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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles
which know not God:
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Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth
in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles
in faith and verity.
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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest
in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached
unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up
into glory.
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Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher
of the Gentiles.
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Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that
by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles
might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation,
a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you
out of darkness into his marvellous light:
| Much is made by IO'ers of Peter's salutation to the dispersed: |
| 1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. | |
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Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles:
that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may
by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day
of visitation.
| In other words, IO'ers will claim that Peter is addressing his letter to "Gentiles," that is, to northern tribe descendants in gentile nations. But that would mean here in 1 Peter 2:12, Peter is saying, "Attention, Gentiles, have honest behavior among Gentiles!"
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For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will
of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
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Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing
of the Gentiles.
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And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end,
to him will I give power over the nations:
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And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take
the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and
hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
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After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which
no man could number, of all nations, and
kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne,
and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms
in their hands;
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And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before
many peoples, and nations, and tongues,
and kings.
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But the court which is without the temple leave out,
and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles:
and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
| Jerusalem did not experience "the great tribulation" at the hands of descendants of the northern tribes, but at the hands of non-Israelites in the Roman army. |
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And they of the people and kindreds and tongues
and nations shall see their dead bodies three
days and an half, and shall not suffer their
dead bodies to be put in graves.
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And the nations were angry, and thy wrath
is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give
reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear
thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy
the earth.
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And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all
nations with a rod of iron: and her child
was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
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And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and
to overcome them: and power was given him over all
kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
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And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
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And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
that great city, because she made all nations
drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
| "Babylon" did something to descendants of the northern tribes? Who believes that? |
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Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify
thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations
shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments
are made manifest.
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And the great city was divided into three parts, and
the cities of the nations fell : and great Babylon
came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath.
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And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore
sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations,
and tongues.
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For all nations have drunk of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance
of her delicacies.
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And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;
and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all
in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth;
for by thy sorceries were all nations
deceived.
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And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that
with it he should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him
up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations
no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after
that he must be loosed a little season.
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And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in
the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them
together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
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And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light
of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and
honour into it.
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And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations
into it.
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In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there
the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit
every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
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"The Ends of the Earth"
Jesus told His disciples to be quiet in order to fulfill Old Testament prophecy about the Gospel going to the Gentiles:
Matthew 12:16 He warned them not to make Him known, 17 so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
18 Here is My Servant whom I have chosen,
My beloved in whom My soul delights;
I will put My Spirit on Him,
and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
21 The nations will put their hope in His name.
If we assume that many Old Testament Scriptures like this (Isaiah 42:1-4) prophesied the extension of the Gospel to the Gentiles (non-Israelites/heathen/pagans) it seems more likely that those folks would have approached Jesus. Just like the Magi. What interest would the Magi have had in trekking across the desert to worship an Israel-only Messiah?
Luke 2:32
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles
and glory to Your people Israel.
Acts 13:46-48
46 Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles! 47 For this is what the Lord has commanded us:
I have made you
a light for the Gentiles
to bring salvation
to the ends of the earth.” (Isaiah 49)
48 When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.
Isaiah 49:6
6 He says,
“It is not enough for you to be My Servant
raising up the tribes of Jacob
and restoring the protected ones of Israel.
I will also make you a light for the nations,
to be My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
Doesn't the doctrine of "adoption" suggest that non-Israelites become members of "the household of faith" as if they were born in Israel, and thus beneficiaries of the covenant promises?
Psalm 87
2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God! Selah
4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know Me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia: ‘This man was born there.’”
5 And of Zion it shall be said, “This and that man were born in her; and the Highest Himself shall establish her.”
6 The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah
Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways, and we may walk in His paths.
Isaiah 19:19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. 25 whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”
In Romans 9, Paul says " I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh," Paul is saying he would trade places with Israelites who rejected Jesus as Messiah if that were possible. But in saying this, he is saying
that they are cursed. One might say, "disinherited."
This is why Jesus told the Jewish leader Nicodemus that his first birth (with Israelite DNA) was worthless, and he needed to be "born again" in order to be adopted into the Household of Faith.
Not "Israel Only," but "Israel NEVER" --
unless they become a new race.
Didn't the prophets anticipate Jesus, when He said the non-elect Israelites killed the prophets and would be cast out (Matthew 23-25), but that non-Israelites who had faith would be adopted into the Household of Faith and become beneficiaries of the covenant promises that were first made to Israel?
Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways, and we may walk in His paths.
Isaiah 19:19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border. 25 whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”
Psalm 87
2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God! Selah
4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know Me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia: ‘This man was born there.’”
5 And of Zion it shall be said, “This and that man were born in her; and the Highest Himself shall establish her.”
6 The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah
1 Kings 8:43
43 hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.
Malachi 1:5
‘May the Lord be magnified beyond the border of Israel.’
11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,
My name shall be great among the Gentiles;
In every place incense shall be offered to My name,
And a pure offering;
For My name shall be great among the nations,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
14 “And My name is to be feared among the nations.
Isaiah 19:24 In that day Israel shall be the third [referring to (1) Egypt and (2) Assyria]
Calvin comments:
"In that day shall Israel."
Isaiah concludes the promise which he had briefly glanced at, that the Egyptians and Assyrians, as well as Israel, shall be blessed. Formerly the grace of God was in some measure confined to Israel, because with that nation only had the Lord entered into covenant. The Lord had stretched out “his cord” over Jacob, (Deuteronomy 32:9,) as Moses speaks; (56) and David says,
“He hath not done so to any nation, and hath not made known to them his judgments.” (Psalm 147:20.)
In a word, the blessing of God dwelt solely in Judea, but he says that it will be shared with the Egyptians and Assyrians, under whose name he includes also the rest of the nations. He does not mention them for the purpose of shewing respect, but because they were the constant enemies of God, and appeared to be more estranged from him and farther removed from the hope of favor than all others. Accordingly, though he had formerly adopted none but the children of Abraham, he now wished to be called, without distinction, “The father of all nations.” (Genesis 17:7; Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 7:6.)
25."Because the Lord of hosts will bless him."
He assigns a reason, and explains the former statement; for he shews that, through the undeserved goodness of God, the Assyrians and Egyptians shall be admitted to fellowship with the chosen people of God. As if he had said, “Though these titles belonged exclusively to Israel, they shall likewise be conferred on other nations, which the Lord hath adopted to be his own.” There is a mutual relation between God and his people, so that they who are called by his mouth “a holy people,” (Exodus 19:6,) may justly, in return, call him their God. Yet this designation is bestowed indiscriminately on Egyptians and Assyrians.
"Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands."
Though the Prophet intended to describe foreign nations as associated with the Jews who had belonged to God’s household, yet he employs most appropriate marks to describe the degrees. By calling the Egyptians “the people of God,” he means that they will share in the honor which God deigned to bestow in a peculiar manner on the Jews alone. When he calls Assyrians the work of his hands, he distinguishes them by the title peculiar to his Church. We have elsewhere remarked that the Church is called “the workmanship” ( τὸ ποίημα) of God, (Ephesians 2:10,) because by the spirit of regeneration believers are created anew, so as to bear the image of God. Thus, he means that we are “the work of God’s hands,” not so far as we are created to be men, but so far as they who are separated from the world, and become new creatures, are created anew to a new life.
Micah 4:10? But verse 11 is clearly about non-Israelite "nations"
11 Now many nations
are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
12 But they do not know
the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
These are non-Israelite nations, who are Israel's enemy in the immediate future, but in "the latter days" (Micah 4:1, cf. Acts 2:17) these same non-Israelite nations will come to true faith.
Yes, Malachi 1 is about the non-Israelite nations to which Israel was scattered, but it promises their conversion to the true
religion.
Matthew Poole:
"This verse is a very full and plain prediction or promise made on behalf of the Gentiles, that they should be a people to the Lord, and should exalt his name, and worship him in a pure way, and well-pleasing to the Lord. That when he casteth off ceremonial services and carnal ordinances, he will set up spiritual and heavenly, and all nations, from east to west, shall submit to them, and sanctify the holy and reverend name of God in them.
"Incense; a law term for a gospel duty; and under this type is contained the prayers and praises, nay, the whole gospel worship is that incense which shall be offered unto God, which is in the verse called a pure offering.
"A pure offering; both sincere, in opposition to hypocrisy, and holy, in opposition to impurity, and purged from superstition and idolatry. The sum of this verse is contained in that John 4:21-24."
Psalm 22:27-31
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations.
Psalm 67:2
2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
It is the New Covenant (according to the book of Hebrews) that cast off the "ceremonial services" Poole mentions.
Isaiah 49:6
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Here we see the total Israel (Jacob + Israel) distinguished from non-Israelites, and salvation going to the non-Israelites through Christ and the New Covenant:
Luke 2:32
32 A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles,
And the glory of Your people Israel.”
Acts 13:47
47 For so the Lord has commanded us:
‘I have set you as a light to the Gentiles,
That you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
Revelation 7 = 144k from the nation of Israel, and a vastly greater number from all other (non-Israelite) nations.Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor
a lawgiver from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes;
And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.
21 They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They
have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols.
But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The
nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
27 All the ends of the world
Shall
remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations
Shall worship before You.
28 For
the kingdom is the Lord’s,
And He rules over the nations.
29 All the prosperous of the earth
Shall
eat and worship;
All those who go down to the dust
Shall bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep himself alive.
30 A posterity shall serve Him.
It
will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
31 They will come and
declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
That He has done this.
4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God,
The
holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.
10 Be still, and know that I am God;
I
will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!
2 O You who hear prayer,
To You
all flesh will come.
4 All the earth shall worship You
And
sing praises to You;
They shall sing praises to Your name.” Selah
31 Envoys will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia
will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
32 Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth;
Oh,
sing praises to the Lord, Selah
35 For God will save Zion
And
build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.
36 Also,
the descendants of His servants shall inherit it,
And those who love His name shall dwell in it.
10 Mercy and truth have met together;
Righteousness
and peace have kissed.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth,
And
righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Yes, the Lord
will give what is good;
And our land will yield its increase.
9 All nations whom You have made
Shall
come and worship before You, O Lord,
And shall glorify Your name.
4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold,
O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’”
89 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever;
With
my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.
2 For I have said, “Mercy
shall be built up forever;
Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens.”
3 “I have made a covenant with My chosen,
I
have sworn to My servant David:
4 ‘Your seed I will establish forever,
And
build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah
5 And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord;
Your
faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints.
6 For who in the heavens can be compared
to the Lord?
Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord?
7 God
is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,
And to be held in reverence by all those around Him.
8 O
Lord God of hosts,
Who is mighty like You, O Lord?
Your faithfulness also
surrounds You.
9 You rule the raging of the sea;
When
its waves rise, You still them.
10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain;
You
have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.
11 The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The
world and all its fullness, You have founded them.
12 The north and the south, You have
created them;
Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name.
13 You
have a mighty arm;
Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand.
14 Righteousness
and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Mercy and truth go before Your face.
15 Blessed
are the people who know the joyful sound!
They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.
16 In
Your name they rejoice all day long,
And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
17 For
You are the glory of their strength,
And in Your favor our horn is exalted.
18 For
our shield belongs to the Lord,
And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one,
And
said: “I have given help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.
20 I
have found My servant David;
With My holy oil I have anointed him,
21 With
whom My hand shall be established;
Also My arm shall strengthen him.
22 The
enemy shall not outwit him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
23 I
will beat down his foes before his face,
And plague those who hate him.
24 “But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him,
And
in My name his horn shall be exalted.
25 Also I will set his hand over the sea,
And
his right hand over the rivers.
26 He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My
God, and the rock of my salvation.’
27 Also I will make him My firstborn,
The
highest of the kings of the earth.
28 My mercy I will keep for him forever,
And
My covenant shall stand firm with him.
29 His seed also I will make to endure
forever,
And his throne as the days of heaven.
30 “If his sons forsake My law
And
do not walk in My judgments,
31 If they break My statutes
And
do not keep My commandments,
32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod,
And
their iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take
from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.
34 My
covenant I will not break,
Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
35 Once
I have sworn by My holiness;
I will not lie to David:
36 His
seed shall endure forever,
And his throne as the sun before Me;
37 It
shall be established forever like the moon,
Even like the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
Psalm 96
A Song of Praise to God Coming in Judgment
96 Oh,
sing to the Lord a new song!
Sing to the Lord,
all the earth.
2 Sing
to the Lord, bless His name;
Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.
3 Declare
His glory among the nations,
His wonders among all peoples.
4 For
the Lord is great and greatly to be praised;
He is to
be feared above all gods.
5 For
all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.
6 Honor
and majesty are before Him;
Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
7 Give
to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Give to the Lord
glory and strength.
8 Give
to the Lord the glory due His name;
Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
9 Oh,
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!
Tremble before Him, all the earth.
10 Say
among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
The world also is firmly established,
It
shall not be moved;
He shall judge the peoples righteously.”
11 Let
the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
12 Let
the field be joyful, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord.
13 For
He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth.
He shall judge the world with righteousness,
And
the peoples with His truth.
13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion;
For
the time to favor her,
Yes, the set time, has come.
14 For
Your servants take pleasure in her stones,
And show favor to her dust.
15 So
the nations shall fear the name of the Lord,
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
16 For
the Lord shall build up Zion;
He shall appear in His glory.
18 This will be written for the generation to come,
That
a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.
19 For
He looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
20 To
hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death,
21 To
declare the name of the Lord in Zion,
And His praise in Jerusalem,
22 When
the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
110 The
Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till
I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
2 The
Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion.
Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
3 Your
people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your power;
In the
beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning,
You have the dew of Your youth.
4 The
Lord has sworn
And will not relent,
“You
are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”
5 The
Lord is at Your right hand;
He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
6 He
shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
He
shall execute the heads of many countries.
7 He
shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He shall lift up the head.
3 From the rising of the sun to its going down
The
Lord’s name is to be praised.
24 This is the day the Lord
has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
5 Those who sow in tears
Shall
reap in joy.
6 He who continually goes forth weeping,
Bearing
seed for sowing,
Shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
Bringing his sheaves with him.
15 I will abundantly bless her provision;
I
will satisfy her poor with bread.
16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation,
And
her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
17 There I will make the horn of David grow;
I
will prepare a lamp for My Anointed.
4 All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O Lord,
When
they hear the words of Your mouth.
5 Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord,
For
great is the glory of the Lord.
10 All Your works shall praise You, O Lord,
And
Your saints shall bless You.
11 They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,
And
talk of Your power,
2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That
the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And
all nations shall flow to it.
3 Many people shall come and say,
“Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And
we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He
shall judge between the nations,
And rebuke many people;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation
shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
5 O house of Jacob, come and let us walk
In the
light of the Lord.
2 In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be
beautiful and glorious;
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing
For those of Israel who have escaped.
3 And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.
5 then the Lord will create above every dwelling place of Mount Zion, and above her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering. 6 And there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat, for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain.
9 Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed,
As
when at first He lightly esteemed
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
And afterward more heavily oppressed her,
By the way of
the sea, beyond the Jordan,
In Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 The
people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation
And
increased its joy;
They rejoice before You
According to the joy of harvest,
As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For
You have broken the yoke of his burden
And the staff of his shoulder,
The rod of his oppressor,
As in the day of Midian.
5 For
every warrior’s sandal from the noisy battle,
And garments rolled in blood,
Will be used for burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto
us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace
There
will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even
forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
11 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,
And
a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
2 The Spirit of the Lord
shall rest upon Him,
The Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The Spirit of counsel and might,
The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
3 His delight is in the fear of the Lord,
And
He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes,
Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
4 But
with righteousness He shall judge the poor,
And decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And
with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked.
5 Righteousness shall be the belt
of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.
6 “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The
leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
7 The
cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The
nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
9 They
shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.
10 “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who
shall stand as a banner to the people;
For the Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”
7 In that time a present will be brought to the Lord
of hosts
From a people tall and smooth of skin,
And from a people terrible from their beginning onward,
A nation powerful and treading down,
Whose
land the rivers divide—
To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts,
To Mount Zion.
24 In that day Israel will be one of three with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing in the midst of the land, 25 whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”
17 And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her gain and her pay will be set apart for the Lord; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing.
16 From the ends of the earth we have heard songs:
“Glory
to the righteous!”
But I said, “I am ruined, ruined!
Woe to me!
The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously,
Indeed,
the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.”
6 And in this mountain
The Lord
of hosts will make for all people
A feast of choice pieces,
A feast of wines on the lees,
Of fat things full of marrow,
Of
well-refined wines on the lees.
7 And He will destroy on this mountain
The
surface of the covering cast over all people,
And the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He
will swallow up death forever,
And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of His people
He
will take away from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
18 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,
And
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
19 The humble also
shall increase their joy in the Lord,
And the poor among men shall rejoice
In the Holy One of Israel.
20 For
the terrible one is brought to nothing,
The scornful one is consumed,
And all who watch for iniquity are cut off—
21 Who
make a man an offender by a word,
And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
And turn aside the just by empty words.
22 Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob shall not now be ashamed,
Nor shall his face now grow pale;
23 But
when he sees his children,
The work of My hands, in his midst,
They will hallow My name,
And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,
And
fear the God of Israel.
24 These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding,
And
those who complained will learn doctrine.”
20 And though the Lord gives you
The
bread of adversity and the water of affliction,
Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,
But your eyes shall see your teachers.
Isaiah 32
32 Behold,
a king will reign in righteousness,
And princes will rule with justice.
2 A
man will be as a hiding place from the wind,
And a cover from the tempest,
As rivers of water in a
dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 The
eyes of those who see will not be dim,
And the ears of those who hear will listen.
4 Also
the heart of the rash will understand knowledge,
And the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.
5 The
foolish person will no longer be called generous,
Nor the miser said to be bountiful;
6 For
the foolish person will speak foolishness,
And his heart will work iniquity:
To practice
ungodliness,
To utter error against the Lord,
To
keep the hungry unsatisfied,
And he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
7 Also
the schemes of the schemer are evil;
He devises wicked plans
To
destroy the poor with lying words,
Even when the needy speaks justice.
8 But
a generous man devises generous things,
And by generosity he shall stand.
9 Rise
up, you women who are at ease,
Hear my voice;
You complacent daughters,
Give
ear to my speech.
10 In
a year and some days
You will be troubled, you complacent women;
For
the vintage will fail,
The gathering will not come.
11 Tremble,
you women who are at ease;
Be troubled, you complacent ones;
Strip
yourselves, make yourselves bare,
And gird sackcloth on your waists.
12 People
shall mourn upon their breasts
For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 On
the land of my people will come up thorns and briers,
Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city;
14 Because
the palaces will be forsaken,
The bustling city will be deserted.
The forts and towers will
become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
15 Until
the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
And the
fruitful field is counted as a forest.
16 Then
justice will dwell in the wilderness,
And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 The
work of righteousness will be peace,
And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
18 My
people will dwell in a peaceful habitation,
In secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places,
19 Though
hail comes down on the forest,
And the city is brought low in humiliation.
20 Blessed
are you who sow beside all waters,
Who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.
5 The Lord is exalted, for He
dwells on high;
He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
13 Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done;
And
you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness
has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15 He
who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his
ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
16 He
will dwell on high;
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks;
Bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.
17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
They
will see the land that is very far off.
18 Your heart will meditate on terror:
“Where
is the scribe?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”
19 You
will not see a fierce people,
A people of obscure speech, beyond perception,
Of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts;
Your
eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet home,
A tabernacle that will not be taken down;
Not one of its stakes will ever be removed,
Nor will any
of its cords be broken.
21 But there the majestic Lord
will be for us
A place of broad rivers and streams,
In which no galley with oars will sail,
Nor majestic ships pass by
22 (For
the Lord is our Judge,
The Lord is our Lawgiver,
The Lord
is our King;
He will save us);
23 Your
tackle is loosed,
They could not strengthen their mast,
They could not spread the sail.
Then the prey of great plunder is divided;
The lame take the prey.
24 And
the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.
35 The
wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them,
And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
2 It
shall blossom abundantly and rejoice,
Even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be
given to it,
The excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the Lord,
The
excellency of our God.
3 Strengthen
the weak hands,
And make firm the feeble knees.
4 Say
to those who are fearful-hearted,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Behold,
your God will come with vengeance,
With the recompense of God;
He
will come and save you.”
5 Then
the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then
the lame shall leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the dumb sing.
For waters shall burst forth in
the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
7 The
parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water;
In the habitation of
jackals, where each lay,
There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 A
highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean
shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever
walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray.
9 No
lion shall be there,
Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it;
It
shall not be found there.
But the redeemed shall walk there,
10 And
the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With
everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
And sorrow and sighing shall
flee away.
4 Every valley shall be exalted
And
every mountain and hill brought low;
The crooked places shall be made straight
And the rough places smooth;
5 The
glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
And all flesh shall see it together;
For the mouth of the Lord
has spoken.”
6 The voice said, “Cry out!”
And
he said, “What shall I cry?”
“All flesh is grass,
And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
7 The
grass withers, the flower fades,
Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.
8 The
grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.”
9 O Zion,
You who bring good
tidings,
Get up into the high mountain;
O Jerusalem,
You who bring good tidings,
Lift
up your voice with strength,
Lift it up, be not afraid;
Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
10 Behold, the Lord God shall
come with a strong hand,
And His arm shall rule for Him;
Behold, His reward is with Him,
And His work before Him.
11 He
will feed His flock like a shepherd;
He will gather the lambs with His arm,
And carry them in His bosom,
And gently lead those who
are with young.
17 “The poor and needy seek water, but there is none,
Their
tongues fail for thirst.
I, the Lord, will hear them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I
will open rivers in desolate heights,
And fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
And the dry land
springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree,
The
myrtle and the oil tree;
I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine
And the box tree together,
20 That
they may see and know,
And consider and understand together,
That the hand of the Lord has done this,
And
the Holy One of Israel has created it.
42 “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold,
My Elect One
in whom My soul delights!
I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
2 He
will not cry out, nor raise His voice,
Nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
3 A
bruised reed He will not break,
And smoking flax He will not quench;
He will bring forth justice for truth.
4 He
will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
5 Thus says God the Lord,
Who
created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it,
Who gives breath to the people on it,
And
spirit to those who walk on it:
6 “I, the Lord,
have called You in righteousness,
And will hold Your hand;
I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people,
As a light to the Gentiles,
7 To
open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the prison,
Those who sit in darkness from the prison house.
8 I
am the Lord, that is My name;
And My glory I will not give to another,
Nor My praise to carved images.
9 Behold,
the former things have come to pass,
And new things I declare;
Before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
And
His praise from the ends of the earth,
You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,
You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!
11 Let
the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice,
The villages that Kedar inhabits.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing,
Let them
shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
And
declare His praise in the coastlands.
3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
And
floods on the dry ground;
I will pour My Spirit on your descendants,
And My blessing on your offspring;
4 They
will spring up among the grass
Like willows by the watercourses.’
5 One
will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;
Another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
Another will write with his hand, ‘The Lord’s,’
And
name himself by the name of Israel.
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That
there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other;
8 “Rain down, you heavens, from above,
And
let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the Lord,
have created it.
14 Thus says the Lord:
“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They
shall walk behind you,
They shall come over in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying, ‘Surely
God is in you,
And there is no other;
There is no other God.’”
23 I have sworn by Myself;
The
word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
And shall not return,
That to Me every knee shall bow,
Every tongue shall take an oath.
24 He
shall say,
‘Surely in the Lord I have righteousness and strength.
To Him men shall come,
And
all shall be ashamed
Who are incensed against Him.
12 “Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted,
Who
are far from righteousness:
13 I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far
off;
My salvation shall not linger.
And I will place salvation in Zion,
For Israel My glory.
6 Indeed He says,
‘It is too
small a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob,
And to restore the preserved ones of Israel;
I will also give You as a
light to the Gentiles,
That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
7 Thus says the Lord,
The
Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One,
To Him whom man despises,
To Him whom the nation abhors,
To the Servant of rulers:
“Kings
shall see and arise,
Princes also shall worship,
Because of the Lord who is faithful,
The
Holy One of Israel;
And He has chosen You.”
8 Thus says the Lord:
“In an acceptable time I have heard You,
And in the day of salvation I have helped You;
I will preserve You and give You
As
a covenant to the people,
To restore the earth,
To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That
You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
“They shall feed along the roads,
And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.
10 They
shall neither hunger nor thirst,
Neither heat nor sun shall strike them;
For He who has mercy on them will lead them,
Even by the springs of
water He will guide them.
11 I will make each of My mountains a road,
And
My highways shall be elevated.
12 Surely these shall come from afar;
Look!
Those from the north and the west,
And these from the land of Sinim.”
18 Lift up your eyes, look around and see;
All
these gather together and come to you.
As I live,” says the Lord,
“You shall surely clothe yourselves with them all as an
ornament,
And bind them on you as a bride does.
19 “For your waste and desolate places,
And
the land of your destruction,
Will even now be too small for the inhabitants;
And those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 The
children you will have,
After you have lost the others,
Will say again in your ears,
‘The place is too small for me;
Give
me a place where I may dwell.’
21 Then you will say in your heart,
‘Who
has begotten these for me,
Since I have lost my children and am desolate,
A captive, and wandering to and fro?
And who has brought these up?
There
I was, left alone;
But these, where were they?’”
22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,
And set up My standard for the peoples;
They shall bring your sons in their arms,
And
your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
23 Kings shall be your foster
fathers,
And their queens your nursing mothers;
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth,
And lick up the dust of your
feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord,
For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”
3 For the Lord will comfort
Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert like the garden of the Lord;
Joy
and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
4 “Listen to Me, My people;
And
give ear to Me, O My nation:
For law will proceed from Me,
And I will make My justice rest
As a light of the peoples.
5 My
righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
And My arms will judge the peoples;
The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And
on My arm they will trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And
look on the earth beneath.
For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die
in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not be abolished.
7 “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
You
people in whose heart is My law:
Do not fear the reproach of men,
Nor be afraid of their insults.
8 For
the moth will eat them up like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool;
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation from
generation to generation.”
9 Awake, awake, put on strength,
O
arm of the Lord!
Awake as in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
Are
You not the arm that cut Rahab apart,
And wounded the serpent?
10 Are You not the One who dried up the sea,
The
waters of the great deep;
That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?
11 So
the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They
shall obtain joy and gladness;
Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who
are you that you should be afraid
Of a man who will die,
And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?
13 And
you forget the Lord your Maker,
Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth;
You
have feared continually every day
Because of the fury of the oppressor,
When he has prepared to destroy.
And where is the fury of
the oppressor?
14 The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed,
That
he should not die in the pit,
And that his bread should not fail.
15 But
I am the Lord your God,
Who divided the sea whose waves roared—
The Lord
of hosts is His name.
16 And I have put My words in your mouth;
I
have covered you with the shadow of My hand,
That I may plant the heavens,
Lay the foundations of the earth,
And say to Zion, ‘You are
My people.’”
52 Awake,
awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments,
O
Jerusalem, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Shall no longer come to you.
2 Shake
yourself from the dust, arise;
Sit down, O Jerusalem!
Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck,
O
captive daughter of Zion!
3 For thus says the Lord:
“You
have sold yourselves for nothing,
And you shall be redeemed without money.”
4 For thus says the Lord God:
“My
people went down at first
Into Egypt to dwell there;
Then the Assyrian oppressed them without
cause.
5 Now
therefore, what have I here,” says the Lord,
“That My people are taken away for nothing?
Those
who rule over them
Make them wail,”[a]
says the Lord,
“And My name is blasphemed continually every day.
6 Therefore
My people shall know My name;
Therefore they shall know in that day
That
I am He who speaks:
‘Behold, it is I.’”
7 How
beautiful upon the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who proclaims peace,
Who
brings glad tidings of good things,
Who proclaims salvation,
Who
says to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”
8 Your
watchmen shall lift up their voices,
With their voices they shall sing together;
For
they shall see eye to eye
When the Lord brings back Zion.
9 Break
forth into joy, sing together,
You waste places of Jerusalem!
For the Lord
has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The
Lord has made bare His holy arm
In the eyes of all the nations;
And
all the ends of the earth shall see
The salvation of our God.
11 Depart!
Depart! Go out from there,
Touch no unclean thing;
Go out
from the midst of her,
Be clean,
You who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For
you shall not go out with haste,
Nor go by flight;
For the Lord
will go before you,
And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
13 Behold,
My Servant shall deal prudently;
He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.
14 Just
as many were astonished at you,
So His visage was marred more than any man,
And His form more
than the sons of men;
15 So
shall He sprinkle[b]
many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For what had not been told them they shall
see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to
bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His
days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 He
shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore
I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was
numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
54 “Sing,
O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing,
and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more
are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
2 “Enlarge
the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen
your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For
you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And
make the desolate cities inhabited.
4 “Do
not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;
For
you will forget the shame of your youth,
And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 For
your Maker is your husband,
The Lord of hosts is His
name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is
called the God of the whole earth.
6 For
the Lord has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like
a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your God.
7 “For
a mere moment I have forsaken you,
But with great mercies I will gather you.
8 With
a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says
the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “For
this is like the waters of Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That
the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with
you, nor rebuke you.
10 For
the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor
shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
11 “O
you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold,
I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 I
will make your pinnacles of rubies,
Your gates of crystal,
And all your walls of precious stones.
13 All
your children shall be taught by the Lord,
And great shall
be the peace of your children.
14 In
righteousness you shall be established;
You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
And
from terror, for it shall not come near you.
15 Indeed
they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.
Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
16 “Behold,
I have created the blacksmith
Who blows the coals in the fire,
Who brings forth an instrument for
his work;
And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
17 No
weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You
shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
And
their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord.
55 “Ho!
Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come,
buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
2 Why
do you spend money for what is not bread,
And your wages for what does not satisfy?
Listen
carefully to Me, and eat what is good,
And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 Incline
your ear, and come to Me.
Hear, and your soul shall live;
And I will make an everlasting covenant
with you—
The sure mercies of David.
4 Indeed
I have given him as a witness to the people,
A leader and commander for the people.
5 Surely
you shall call a nation you do not know,
And nations who do not know you shall run to you,
Because
of the Lord your God,
And the Holy One of Israel;
For
He has glorified you.”
6 Seek
the Lord while He may be found,
Call upon Him while He is near.
7 Let
the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the Lord,
And
He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
8 “For
My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For
as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And
My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For
as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And
make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So
shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall
accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
12 “For
you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall
break forth into singing before you,
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead
of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree,
And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree;
And
it shall be to the Lord for a name,
For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
3 Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who
has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
“The Lord has utterly separated
me from His people”;
Nor let the eunuch say,
“Here I am, a dry tree.”
4 For
thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And
hold fast My covenant,
5 Even to them I will give in My house
And
within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.
6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who
join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone
who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even
them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be
accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
8 The
Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him.”
19 So shall they fear
The
name of the Lord from the west,
And His glory from the rising of the sun;
When the enemy comes in like a flood,
The
Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And
to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
21 “As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”
60 Arise,
shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the Lord
is risen upon you.
2 For
behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the Lord
will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
3 The
Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 “Lift
up your eyes all around, and see:
They all gather together, they come to you;
Your sons shall come
from afar,
And your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
5 Then
you shall see and become radiant,
And your heart shall swell with joy;
Because the abundance of the
sea shall be turned to you,
The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.
6 The
multitude of camels shall cover your land,
The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;
All
those from Sheba shall come;
They shall bring gold and incense,
And they shall proclaim the praises
of the Lord.
7 All
the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you,
The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;
They
shall ascend with acceptance on My altar,
And I will glorify the house of My glory.
8 “Who
are these who fly like a cloud,
And like doves to their roosts?
9 Surely
the coastlands shall wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
To
bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
To the name of the Lord
your God,
And to the Holy One of Israel,
Because He has glorified you.
10 “The
sons of foreigners shall build up your walls,
And their kings shall minister to you;
For in My
wrath I struck you,
But in My favor I have had mercy on you.
11 Therefore
your gates shall be open continually;
They shall not be shut day or night,
That men
may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles,
And their kings in procession.
12 For
the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish,
And those nations shall be utterly ruined.
13 “The
glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together,
To beautify
the place of My sanctuary;
And I will make the place of My feet glorious.
14 Also
the sons of those who afflicted you
Shall come bowing to you,
And all those who despised you
shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet;
And they shall call you The City of the Lord,
Zion
of the Holy One of Israel.
15 “Whereas
you have been forsaken and hated,
So that no one went through you,
I
will make you an eternal excellence,
A joy of many generations.
16 You
shall drink the milk of the Gentiles,
And milk the breast of kings;
You shall know that I, the Lord,
am your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 “Instead
of bronze I will bring gold,
Instead of iron I will bring silver,
Instead of wood, bronze,
And
instead of stones, iron.
I will also make your officers peace,
And your magistrates
righteousness.
18 Violence
shall no longer be heard in your land,
Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders;
But
you shall call your walls Salvation,
And your gates Praise.
19 “The
sun shall no longer be your light by day,
Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you;
But
the Lord will be to you an everlasting light,
And your God your glory.
20 Your
sun shall no longer go down,
Nor shall your moon withdraw itself;
For the Lord
will be your everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning shall be ended.
21 Also
your people shall all be righteous;
They shall inherit the land forever,
The
branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.
22 A
little one shall become a thousand,
And a small one a strong nation.
I, the Lord,
will hasten it in its time.”
61 “The
Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord
has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To
proclaim liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 To
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To
comfort all who mourn,
3 To
console those who mourn in Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The
planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
4 And
they shall rebuild the old ruins,
They shall raise up the former desolations,
And they shall repair
the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.
5 Strangers
shall stand and feed your flocks,
And the sons of the foreigner
Shall
be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
6 But
you shall be named the priests of the Lord,
They shall call you the servants of our God.
You
shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,
And in their glory you shall boast.
7 Instead
of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore
in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
8 “For
I, the Lord, love justice;
I hate robbery for burnt offering;
I
will direct their work in truth,
And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
9 Their
descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,
And their offspring among the people.
All who see
them shall acknowledge them,
That they are the posterity whom the Lord
has blessed.”
10 I
will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My soul shall be joyful in my God;
For
He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
As
a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For
as the earth brings forth its bud,
As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,
So
the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62 For
Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace,
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
Until her
righteousness goes forth as brightness,
And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
2 The
Gentiles shall see your righteousness,
And all kings your glory.
You shall be called by a new name,
Which
the mouth of the Lord will name.
3 You
shall also be a crown of glory
In the hand of the Lord,
And
a royal diadem
In the hand of your God.
4 You
shall no longer be termed Forsaken,
Nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate;
But you shall
be called Hephzibah,[a]
and your land Beulah;[b]
For
the Lord delights in you,
And your land shall be married.
5 For
as a young man marries a virgin,
So shall your sons marry you;
And
as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
So shall your God rejoice over you.
6 I
have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You
who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
7 And
give Him no rest till He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The
Lord has sworn by His right hand
And by the arm of His strength:
“Surely
I will no longer give your grain
As food for your enemies;
And
the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,
For which you have labored.
9 But
those who have gathered it shall eat it,
And praise the Lord;
Those
who have brought it together shall drink it in My holy courts.”
10 Go
through,
Go through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people;
Build
up,
Build up the highway!
Take out the stones,
Lift
up a banner for the peoples!
11 Indeed
the Lord has proclaimed
To the end of the world:
“Say
to the daughter of Zion,
‘Surely your salvation is coming;
Behold, His reward is
with Him,
And His work before Him.’”
12 And
they shall call them The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
And
you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
65 “I
was sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I
said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
To a nation that was not called by My name.
2 I
have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in a way that is not good,
According
to their own thoughts;
3 A
people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense
on altars of brick;
4 Who
sit among the graves,
And spend the night in the tombs;
Who eat swine’s flesh,
And
the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Who
say, ‘Keep to yourself,
Do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These
are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.
6 “Behold,
it is written before Me:
I will not keep silence, but will repay—
Even
repay into their bosom—
7 Your
iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together,”
Says the Lord,
“Who
have burned incense on the mountains
And blasphemed Me on the hills;
Therefore I will measure their
former work into their bosom.”
8 Thus says the Lord:
“As
the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it,
For
a blessing is in it,’
So will I do for My servants’ sake,
That
I may not destroy them all.
9 I
will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
And from Judah an heir of My mountains;
My elect shall
inherit it,
And My servants shall dwell there.
10 Sharon
shall be a fold of flocks,
And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
For My people
who have sought Me.
11 “But
you are those who forsake the Lord,
Who forget My holy mountain,
Who
prepare a table for Gad,[a]
And
who furnish a drink offering for Meni.[b]
12 Therefore
I will number you for the sword,
And you shall all bow down to the slaughter;
Because, when I
called, you did not answer;
When I spoke, you did not hear,
But did evil before My eyes,
And
chose that in which I do not delight.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold,
My servants shall eat,
But you shall be hungry;
Behold, My servants shall drink,
But
you shall be thirsty;
Behold, My servants shall rejoice,
But you shall be ashamed;
14 Behold,
My servants shall sing for joy of heart,
But you shall cry for sorrow of heart,
And wail for
grief of spirit.
15 You
shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen;
For the Lord God will slay you,
And
call His servants by another name;
16 So
that he who blesses himself in the earth
Shall bless himself in the God of truth;
And he who
swears in the earth
Shall swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And
because they are hidden from My eyes.
17 “For
behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.
18 But
be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing,
And
her people a joy.
19 I
will rejoice in Jerusalem,
And joy in My people;
The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in
her,
Nor the voice of crying.
20 “No
more shall an infant from there live but a few days,
Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days;
For
the child shall die one hundred years old,
But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 They
shall build houses and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They
shall not build and another inhabit;
They shall not plant and another eat;
For as the days of a
tree, so shall be the days of My people,
And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They
shall not labor in vain,
Nor bring forth children for trouble;
For they shall
be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord,
And their offspring with them.
24 “It
shall come to pass
That before they call, I will answer;
And while they are still speaking, I
will hear.
25 The
wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
The lion shall eat straw like the ox,
And dust shall
be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,”
Says the
Lord.
7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
Before
her pain came,
She delivered a male child.
8 Who
has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Or shall a nation be born at once?
For
as soon as Zion was in labor,
She gave birth to her children.
9 Shall
I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the Lord.
“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem,
And
be glad with her, all you who love her;
Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;
11 That
you may feed and be satisfied
With the consolation of her bosom,
That you may drink deeply and be delighted
With the abundance of her glory.”
12 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.
Then you shall feed;
On
her sides shall you be carried,
And be dandled on her knees.
13 As
one whom his mother comforts,
So I will comfort you;
And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
14 When you see this, your heart shall rejoice,
And
your bones shall flourish like grass;
The hand of the Lord shall be known to His servants,
And His indignation to His enemies.
15 For
behold, the Lord will come with fire
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And
His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by His sword
The
Lord will judge all flesh;
And the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,
To
go to the gardens
After an idol in the midst,
Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse,
Shall be consumed together,”
says the Lord.
18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 19 I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites,” says the Lord.
22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which
I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 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.
17 “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
2 And you shall swear, ‘The Lord
lives,’
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
The nations shall bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they shall glory.”
19 O Lord, my strength and my
fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely
our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”
20 Will
a man make gods for himself,
Which are not gods?
21 “Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I
will cause them to know
My hand and My might;
And they shall know that My name is the Lord.
7 For thus says the Lord:
“Sing with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chief of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O
Lord, save Your people,
The remnant of Israel!’
8 Behold,
I will bring them from the north country,
And gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with
child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
9 They
shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters,
In a straight way in which
they shall not stumble;
For I am a Father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My firstborn.
34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”
22 Thus says the Lord God: “I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain. 23 On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Under it will dwell birds of every sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell. 24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it.”
23 I will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them—My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.
25 “I will make a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe in their land; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28 And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid. 29 I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. 30 Thus they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people,” says the Lord God.’
31 “You are My flock, the flock of My pasture; you are men, and I am your God,” says the Lord God.
47 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east; and there was water, running out on the right side.
3 And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles. 4 Again he measured one thousand and brought me through the waters; the water came up to my knees. Again he measured one thousand and brought me through; the water came up to my waist. 5 Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross; for the water was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed. 6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.
7 When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. 8 Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. 9 And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. 11 But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt. 12 Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”
35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
13 “I was watching in the night visions,
And
behold, One like the Son of Man,
Coming with the clouds of heaven!
He came to the Ancient of Days,
And they brought Him near before Him.
14 Then
to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom,
That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
Which
shall not pass away,
And His kingdom the one
Which shall not be destroyed.
18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’
22 until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom.
27 Then the kingdom and dominion,
And
the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven,
Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High.
His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
And
all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’
12 As for the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.
12 “At
that time Michael shall stand up,
The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people;
And
there shall be a time of trouble,
Such as never was since there was a nation,
Even
to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,
Every one who is found written in
the book.
2 And
many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life,
Some to
shame and everlasting contempt.
3 Those
who are wise shall shine
Like the brightness of the firmament,
And those who turn many to
righteousness
Like the stars forever and ever.
4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
5 Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?”
7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, “My lord, what shall be the end of these things?”
9 And he said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
11 “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.
13 “But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.”
26 You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied,
And
praise the name of the Lord your God,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And My people shall never be put to shame.
27 Then
you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel:
I am the Lord your God
And there is no other.
My
people shall never be put to shame.
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward
That
I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see
visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I
will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood
and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And
the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32 And
it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.
For
in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,
As the Lord has said,
Among the remnant whom the Lord
calls.
18 And it will come to pass in that day
That
the mountains shall drip with new wine,
The hills shall flow with milk,
And all the brooks of Judah shall be flooded with water;
A fountain
shall flow from the house of the Lord
And water the Valley of Acacias.
11 “On that day I will raise up
The
tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 That
they may possess the remnant of Edom,
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
4 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That
the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And
peoples shall flow to it.
2 Many nations shall come and say,
“Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And
we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He
shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning
hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
4 But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree,
And
no one shall make them afraid;
For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
5 For
all people walk each in the name of his god,
But we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
Forever and ever.
6 “In that day,” says the Lord,
“I
will assemble the lame,
I will gather the outcast
And those whom I have afflicted;
7 I
will make the lame a remnant,
And the outcast a strong nation;
So the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion
From
now on, even forever.
2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Though
you are little among the thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be Ruler in Israel,
Whose goings forth are
from of old,
From everlasting.”
3 Therefore He shall give them up,
Until
the time that she who is in labor has given birth;
Then the remnant of His brethren
Shall return to the children of Israel.
4 And
He shall stand and feed His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord
His God;
And they shall abide,
For now He shall be great
To the ends of the earth;
5 And
this One shall be peace.
When the Assyrian comes into our land,
And when he treads in our palaces,
Then we will raise against him
Seven
shepherds and eight princely men.
6 They shall waste with the sword the land of Assyria,
And
the land of Nimrod at its entrances;
Thus He shall deliver us from the Assyrian,
When he comes into our land
And when he treads within our
borders.
7 Then the remnant of Jacob
Shall
be in the midst of many peoples,
Like dew from the Lord,
Like showers on the grass,
That
tarry for no man
Nor wait for the sons of men.
8 And
the remnant of Jacob
Shall be among the Gentiles,
In the midst of many peoples,
Like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
Like
a young lion among flocks of sheep,
Who, if he passes through,
Both treads down and tears in pieces,
And none can deliver.
9 Your
hand shall be lifted against your adversaries,
And all your enemies shall be cut off.
10 “And it shall be in that day,” says the Lord,
“That
I will cut off your horses from your midst
And destroy your chariots.
11 I
will cut off the cities of your land
And throw down all your strongholds.
12 I
will cut off sorceries from your hand,
And you shall have no soothsayers.
13 Your
carved images I will also cut off,
And your sacred pillars from your midst;
You shall no more worship the work of your hands;
14 I
will pluck your wooden images from your midst;
Thus I will destroy your cities.
15 And
I will execute vengeance in anger and fury
On the nations that have not heard.”
14 For the earth will be filled
With
the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.
11 The Lord will be
awesome to them,
For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth;
People shall worship Him,
Each one from his place,
Indeed
all the shores of the nations.
9 “For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language,
That
they all may call on the name of the Lord,
To serve Him with one accord.
10 From
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
My worshipers,
The daughter of My dispersed ones,
Shall bring My offering.
11 In
that day you shall not be shamed for any of your deeds
In which you transgress against Me;
For then I will take away from your midst
Those who
rejoice in your pride,
And you shall no longer be haughty
In My holy mountain.
12 I
will leave in your midst
A meek and humble people,
And they shall trust in the name of the Lord.
13 The
remnant of Israel shall do no unrighteousness
And speak no lies,
Nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth;
For they shall feed their
flocks and lie down,
And no one shall make them afraid.”
14 Sing, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O Israel!
Be
glad and rejoice with all your heart,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
15 The
Lord has taken away your judgments,
He has cast out your enemy.
The King of Israel, the Lord,
is in your midst;
You shall see disaster no more.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Do
not fear;
Zion, let not your hands be weak.
17 The
Lord your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He
will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”
18 “I will gather those who sorrow over the appointed assembly,
Who
are among you,
To whom its reproach is a burden.
19 Behold,
at that time
I will deal with all who afflict you;
I will save the lame,
And gather those who were driven out;
I
will appoint them for praise and fame
In every land where they were put to shame.
20 At
that time I will bring you back,
Even at the time I gather you;
For I will give you fame and praise
Among all the peoples of the earth,
When
I return your captives before your eyes,”
Says the Lord.
7 and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts. 8 ‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts. 9 ‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.”
10 “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. 11 “Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
15 Even those from afar shall come and build the temple of the Lord. Then you shall know that the Lordof hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”
20 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
‘Peoples shall yet come,
Inhabitants of many cities;
21 The
inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying,
“Let us continue to go and pray before the Lord,
And seek the Lord
of hosts.
I myself will go also.”
22 Yes,
many peoples and strong nations
Shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem,
And to pray before the Lord.’
23 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”
9 The burden of the word of the Lord
Against
the land of Hadrach,
And Damascus its resting place
(For the eyes of men
And all the tribes of Israel
Are
on the Lord);
9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A
colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And
the horse from Jerusalem;
The battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea,
And
from the River to the ends of the earth.’
11 “As for you also,
Because of the blood of
your covenant,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12 Return
to the stronghold,
You prisoners of hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore double to you.
13 For
I have bent Judah, My bow,
Fitted the bow with Ephraim,
And raised up your sons, O Zion,
Against your sons, O Greece,
And
made you like the sword of a mighty man.”
14 Then the Lord will be seen
over them,
And His arrow will go forth like lightning.
The Lord God will blow the trumpet,
And
go with whirlwinds from the south.
15 The Lord
of hosts will defend them;
They shall devour and subdue with slingstones.
They shall drink and roar as if with wine;
They shall be filled
with blood like basins,
Like the corners of the altar.
16 The
Lord their God will save them in that day,
As the flock of His people.
For they shall be like the jewels of a crown,
Lifted
like a banner over His land—
17 For how great is its goodness
And
how great its beauty!
Grain shall make the young men thrive,
And new wine the young women.
8 And in that day it shall be
That
living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter
it shall occur.
9 And the Lord
shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord is one,”
And
His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11 The people shall dwell in it;
And
no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their
mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day
That
a great panic from the Lord will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah
also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great
abundance.
15 Such also shall be the plague
On
the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,
My
name shall be great among the Gentiles;
In every place incense shall be offered to My name,
And a pure offering;
For My name shall be
great among the nations,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
5 The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
11 “Assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women there has not risen one greater than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
31 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, 32 which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”
33 Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
26 And He said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, 27 and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. 28 For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head. 29 But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
30 Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? 31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32 but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.”
18 Then the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things. 19 And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus,[a] saying, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
20 When the men had come to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’” 21 And that very hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight.
22 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.
16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 ‘And
it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,
That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;
Your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your young men shall see visions,
Your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And
on My menservants and on My maidservants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I
will show wonders in heaven above
And signs in the earth beneath:
Blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20 The
sun shall be turned into darkness,
And the moon into blood,
Before
the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
21 And
it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall
be saved.’
5 Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for His name, 6 among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ;
7 To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. 27 For “He has put all things under His feet.”[a] But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. 28 Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.
10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both[a] which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.
23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may[a] serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
13 And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:
“Blessing
and honor and glory and power
Be to Him who sits on the throne,
And
to the Lamb, forever and ever!”[a]
14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four[b] elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever.
15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!”
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
4 Who
shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are holy.
For
all nations shall come and worship before You,
For Your judgments have been manifested.”
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.
14 Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. 16 The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. 17 Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18 The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
22 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.
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7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
Before
her pain came,
She delivered a male child.
8 Who
has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Or shall a nation be born at once?
For
as soon as Zion was in labor,
She gave birth to her children.
9 Shall
I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the Lord.
“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem,
And
be glad with her, all you who love her;
Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;
11 That
you may feed and be satisfied
With the consolation of her bosom,
That you may drink deeply and be delighted
With the abundance of her glory.”
12 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.
Then you shall feed;
On
her sides shall you be carried,
And be dandled on her knees.
13 As
one whom his mother comforts,
So I will comfort you;
And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
14 When you see this, your heart shall rejoice,
And
your bones shall flourish like grass;
The hand of the Lord shall be known to His servants,
And His indignation to His enemies.
15 For
behold, the Lord will come with fire
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And
His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by His sword
The
Lord will judge all flesh;
And the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,
To
go to the gardens
After an idol in the midst,
Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse,
Shall be consumed together,”
says the Lord.
18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 19 I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites,” says the Lord.
22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth
Which
I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 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.
17 “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
2 And you shall swear, ‘The Lord
lives,’
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
The nations shall bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they shall glory.”
19 O Lord, my strength and my
fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely
our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”
20 Will
a man make gods for himself,
Which are not gods?
21 “Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I
will cause them to know
My hand and My might;
And they shall know that My name is the Lord.
35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
13 “I was watching in the night visions,
And
behold, One like the Son of Man,
Coming with the clouds of heaven!
He came to the Ancient of Days,
And they brought Him near before Him.
14 Then
to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom,
That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
Which
shall not pass away,
And His kingdom the one
Which shall not be destroyed.
23 Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth,
And
I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;
Then I will say to those who were not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And
they shall say, ‘You are my God!’”
28 “And it shall come to pass afterward
That
I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see
visions.
29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
I
will pour out My Spirit in those days.
30 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth:
Blood
and fire and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness,
And
the moon into blood,
Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord.
32 And
it shall come to pass
That whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Shall be saved.
For
in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,
As the Lord has said,
Among the remnant whom the Lord
calls.
11 “On that day I will raise up
The
tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 That
they may possess the remnant of Edom,
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
And
rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.
4 But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree,
And
no one shall make them afraid;
For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
7 and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord of hosts.
10 “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. 11 “Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
15 Even those from afar shall come and build the temple of the Lord. Then you shall know that the Lordof hosts has sent Me to you. And this shall come to pass if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.”
8 And He called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “See, those who go toward the north country have given rest to My Spirit in the north country.”
9 The burden of the word of the Lord
Against
the land of Hadrach,
And Damascus its resting place
(For the eyes of men
And all the tribes of Israel
Are
on the Lord);
9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout,
O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A
colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And
the horse from Jerusalem;
The battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea,
And
from the River to the ends of the earth.’
11 “As for you also,
Because of the blood of
your covenant,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
12 Return
to the stronghold,
You prisoners of hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore double to you.
13 For
I have bent Judah, My bow,
Fitted the bow with Ephraim,
And raised up your sons, O Zion,
Against your sons, O Greece,
And
made you like the sword of a mighty man.”
14 Then the Lord will be seen
over them,
And His arrow will go forth like lightning.
The Lord God will blow the trumpet,
And
go with whirlwinds from the south.
15 The Lord
of hosts will defend them;
They shall devour and subdue with slingstones.
They shall drink and roar as if with wine;
They shall be filled
with blood like basins,
Like the corners of the altar.
16 The
Lord their God will save them in that day,
As the flock of His people.
For they shall be like the jewels of a crown,
Lifted
like a banner over His land—
17 For how great is its goodness
And
how great its beauty!
Grain shall make the young men thrive,
And new wine the young women.
8 And in that day it shall be
That
living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward the eastern sea
And half of them toward the western sea;
In both summer and winter
it shall occur.
9 And the Lord
shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord is one,”
And
His name one.
10 All the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up and inhabited in her place from Benjamin’s Gate to the place of the First Gate and the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
11 The people shall dwell in it;
And
no longer shall there be utter destruction,
But Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem:
Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets,
And their tongues shall dissolve in their
mouths.
13 It shall come to pass in that day
That
a great panic from the Lord will be among them.
Everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor,
And raise his hand against his neighbor’s hand;
14 Judah
also will fight at Jerusalem.
And the wealth of all the surrounding nations
Shall be gathered together:
Gold, silver, and apparel in great
abundance.
15 Such also shall be the plague
On
the horse and the mule,
On the camel and the donkey,
And on all the cattle that will be in those camps.
So shall this plague be.
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
20 In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
11 For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down,
My
name shall be great among the Gentiles;
In every place incense shall be offered to My name,
And a pure offering;
For My name shall be
great among the nations,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
9 and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
11 And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
18 “Behold! My Servant whom I have chosen,
My
Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased!
I will put My Spirit upon Him,
And He will declare justice to the Gentiles.
19
He will not quarrel nor cry out,
Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.
20
A bruised reed He will not break,
And smoking flax He will not quench,
Till He sends forth justice to victory;
21
And in His name Gentiles will trust.”
30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.
31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
29 They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”
24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.
15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.