but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your dispersed be under the farthest skies, I will gather them thence and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
Zechariah 8:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, 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 dispersed be under the farthest skies, I will gather them thence and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
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.
Lo, these shall come from afar, and lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.”
So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who is in travail, 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 cities 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 restore your fortunes, and have compassion upon you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.