*Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
Acts 13:47 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For so the Lord has charged us, saying, I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles (the heathen), that you may bring [eternal] salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth. [Isa. 49:6.] American Standard Version (1901) For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, That thou shouldest be for salvation unto the uttermost part of the earth. Common English Bible This is what the Lord commanded us: “I have made you a light for the Gentiles,” “so that you could bring salvation to the end of the earth”.” Catholic Public Domain Version For so has the Lord instructed us: 'I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, so that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of the Gentiles; that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part of the earth. |
*Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
*I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.
yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Ya`akov, and to restore the preserved of Yisra'el: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the yeshu`ah of our God.
Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.
Yet the number of the children of Yisra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,* says the LORD who does this.
The remnant of Ya`akov will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, that don't wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that the LORD of Armies has sent me to you.
For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,* says the LORD of Armies.
Therefore go, and make talmidim of all nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
He said to them, *Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Yisra'el.*
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Yerushalayim.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Yerushalayim, in all Yehudah and Shomron, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.*
*He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'*
how the Messiah must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.*
But the Lord said to him, *Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Yisra'el.