Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.
Isaiah 60:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The least will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the Lord; I will accomplish it quickly in its time. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The least one shall become a thousand [a clan], and the small one a strong nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in its [appointed] time. American Standard Version (1901) The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time. Common English Bible The least will become a thousand, and the smallest a powerful people. I am the LORD; at the right moment, I will hurry it along. Catholic Public Domain Version The least will become a thousand, and a little one will become a very strong nation. I, the Lord, will accomplish this, suddenly, in its time. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The least shall become a thousand, and a little one a most strong nation: I, the Lord, will suddenly do this thing in its time. |
Israel, even if your people were as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction has been decreed; justice overflows.
to those who say, ‘Let him hurry up and do his work quickly so that we can see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place so that we can know it! ’
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.
Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labour, she gave birth to her sons.
Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing-floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
‘In the days of those kings, the God of the heavens will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and this kingdom will not be left to another people. It will crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself endure for ever.
I will make the lame into a remnant, those far removed into a strong nation. Then the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time on and for ever.
For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it testifies about the end and will not lie. Though it delays, wait for it, since it will certainly come and not be late.
Will not God grant justice to his elect who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay helping them?
So those who accepted his message were baptised, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.
Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers #– #multitudes of both men and women.
For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
Dear friends, don’t overlook this one fact: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.