Romans 9:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth quickly and decisively.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ for he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ For the Lord will execute His sentence upon the earth [He will conclude and close His account with men completely and without delay], rigorously cutting it short in His justice. [Isa. 10:22, 23.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

Common English Bible

²⁸ “because the Lord does what he says completely and quickly.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ For he shall complete his word, while abbreviating it out of equity. For the Lord shall accomplish a brief word upon the earth."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ For he shall finish his word, and cut it short in justice; because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

Romans 9:28 Cross References

Psalm 65:5

By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance, O God of our salvation; you are the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

Psalm 9:8

He judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with equity.

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, an overwhelming verdict.

Isaiah 10:23

For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in all the earth.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger, for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of hosts is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

Matthew 24:21

For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Acts 17:31

because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

Revelation 19:11

Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse! Its rider is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and wages war.