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Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

KJV

Dicam aquiloni : Da ; et austro : Noli prohibere : affer filios meos de longinquo, et filias meas ab extremis terræ.

Vulgate

ἐρῶ τῷ βορρᾷ Ἄγε, καὶ τῷ λιβί Μὴ κώλυε· ἄγε τοὺς υἱούς μου ἀπὸ γῆς πόρρωθεν, καὶ τὰς θυγατέρας μου ἀπ’ ἄκρων τῆς γῆς,

LXX

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

ASV

אֹמַ֤ר לַ/צָּפוֹן֙ תֵּ֔נִי וּ/לְ/תֵימָ֖ן אַל תִּכְלָ֑אִי הָבִ֤יאִי בָנַ/י֙ מֵ/רָח֔וֹק וּ/בְנוֹתַ֖/י מִ/קְצֵ֥ה הָ/אָֽרֶץ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
ה
h
noun · 153×
ה
h
noun · 23×
יִּכָּלֵ֥א
ykl'
verb · 18×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ם
m
verb · 1995×
קְצֵ֣ה
qtsh
noun · 97×
רָח֑וֹק
rchvq
adjective · 84×

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§218In the course of its history, Israel was able to discover that God had only one reason to reveal himself to them, a single motive for choosing them from among all peoples as his special possession: his sheer gratuitous love.38 and thanks to the prophets Israel understood that it was again out of love that God never stopped saving them and pardoning their unfaithfulness and sins…

Cross-references

  • 1Thess 5:3 — For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
  • 2Cor 6:17 — Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
  • 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
  • Deut 30:4 — If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
  • Eph 2:13 — But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
  • Gal 3:26 — For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
  • Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
  • Isa 11:12 — And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
  • Isa 41:13 — For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
  • Isa 56:8 — The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
  • Isa 60:4 — Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
  • Isa 66:20 — And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusal
  • Jer 3:14 — Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
  • Jer 3:18 — In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
  • Jer 31:8 — Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together:
  • John 10:16 — And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
  • Luke 13:29 — And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
  • Matt 24:31 — And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
  • Mic 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow
  • Rom 4:17 — (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
  • Rom 9:7 — Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
  • Rom 9:26 — And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.