I will say to the north, Give up,
    and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring (A)my sons from afar
    and (B)my daughters from the end of the earth,

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I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
    and to the south,(A) ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring my sons from afar
    and my daughters(B) from the ends of the earth(C)

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17 Therefore (A)go out from their midst,
    and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
    then I will welcome you,
18 (B)and I will be a father to you,
    and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”

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17 Therefore,

“Come out from them(A)
    and be separate,
says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
    and I will receive you.”[a](B)

18 And,

“I will be a Father to you,
    and you will be my sons and daughters,(C)
says the Lord Almighty.”[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:18 2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8

18 (A)In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land (B)of the north to (C)the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.

19 “‘I said,
    How I would set you among my sons,
and give you a pleasant land,
    a heritage most beautiful of all nations.
And I thought you would (D)call me, My Father,
    and would not turn from following me.

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18 In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel,(A) and together(B) they will come from a northern(C) land to the land(D) I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.

19 “I myself said,

“‘How gladly would I treat you like my children
    and give you a pleasant land,(E)
    the most beautiful inheritance(F) of any nation.’
I thought you would call me ‘Father’(G)
    and not turn away from following me.

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14 (A)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
    (B)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
    and I will bring you to Zion.

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14 “Return,(A) faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband.(B) I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

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26 for in Christ Jesus (A)you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as (B)were baptized (C)into Christ have (D)put on Christ. 28 (E)There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave[a] nor free, (F)there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And (G)if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, (H)heirs according to promise.

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  1. Galatians 3:28 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God(A) through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ(B) have clothed yourselves with Christ.(C) 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free,(D) nor is there male and female,(E) for you are all one in Christ Jesus.(F) 29 If you belong to Christ,(G) then you are Abraham’s seed,(H) and heirs(I) according to the promise.(J)

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and not all are children of Abraham (A)because they are his offspring, but (B)“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but (C)the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

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Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[a](A) In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,(B) but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.(C)

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  1. Romans 9:7 Gen. 21:12

10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.” 11 And (H)the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and (I)they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

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  1. Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
  2. Hosea 1:10 Or Sons

10 “Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted.(A) In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’(B) 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel will come together;(C) they will appoint one leader(D) and will come up out of the land,(E) for great will be the day of Jezreel.[a](F)

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  1. Hosea 1:11 In Hebrew texts 1:10,11 is numbered 2:1,2.

(A)At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts

from a people (B)tall and smooth,
    from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide,

to (C)Mount Zion, the place of the (D)name of the Lord of hosts.

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At that time gifts(A) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(B)
    from a people feared(C) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers(D)

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(E)

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and (A)gathered in from the lands,
    from the east and from the west,
    from the north and from the south.

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those he gathered(A) from the lands,
    from east and west, from north and south.[a]

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  1. Psalm 107:3 Hebrew north and the sea

25 As indeed he says in Hosea,

(A)“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
26 (B)“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called (C)‘sons of the living God.’”

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25 As he says in Hosea:

“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[a](A)

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:25 Hosea 2:23
  2. Romans 9:26 Hosea 1:10