but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’
Zechariah 8:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Thus says the Lord of hosts: I will save my people from the east country and from the west country, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save My people from the east country and from the west [the country of the going down of the sun]. [Isa. 43:5, 6.] American Standard Version (1901) Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; Common English Bible The LORD of heavenly forces proclaims: I’m about to deliver my people from the land of the east and the land of the west. Catholic Public Domain Version Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the land of the East, and from the land of the setting of the sun. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun. |
but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’
From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised.
The mighty one, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Look, some shall come from far away, some from the north and from the west, and some from the land of Syene.
So those in the west shall fear the name of the Lord, and those in the east, his glory, for he will come like a pent-up stream that the wind of the Lord drives on.
See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labor together; a great company, they shall return here.
Therefore say: Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Thus says the Lord God: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the towns to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.
I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them.
For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name and a pure offering, for my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.