Add parallel Print Page Options

God Gathers the Nations. 18 [a]I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; they shall come and see my glory.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 66:18–21 God summons the neighboring nations to Zion and from among them will send some to far distant lands to proclaim the divine glory. All your kin: Jews in exile. The “gathering of the people and the nations” is an eschatological motif common in the prophetic tradition; cf. 56:8.

18 “And I, because of what they have planned and done,(A) am about to come[a] and gather the people of all nations(B) and languages, and they will come and see my glory.(C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: The city will be taken, houses will be plundered, women raped; half the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Read full chapter

I will gather all the nations(A) to Jerusalem to fight against it;(B) the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.(C) Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.(D)

Read full chapter