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Nations shall walk by your light,
    kings by the radiance of your dawning.(A)

The Nations Come to Zion

Raise your eyes and look about;
    they all gather and come to you—
Your sons from afar,
    your daughters in the arms of their nurses.(B)

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Nations(A) will come to your light,(B)
    and kings(C) to the brightness of your dawn.

“Lift up your eyes and look about you:
    All assemble(D) and come to you;
your sons come from afar,(E)
    and your daughters(F) are carried on the hip.(G)

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And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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.

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15 Many nations will bind themselves to the Lord on that day.(A) They will be my people,[a] and I will dwell in your midst. Then you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 Many nations…my people: a way of expressing God’s relationship to people in covenant language. The covenant between God and Israel (see Jer 31:33; 32:38) is here universalized to include all nations.
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22 Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to implore the favor of the Lord.

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22 And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”(A)

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22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.

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