(A)Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
(B)To bring your sons from afar,
(C)Their silver and their gold with them,
To the name of the Lord your God,
And to the Holy One of Israel,
(D)Because He has glorified you.

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Surely the islands(A) look to me;
    in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,[a](B)
bringing(C) your children from afar,
    with their silver and gold,(D)
to the honor(E) of the Lord your God,
    the Holy One(F) of Israel,
    for he has endowed you with splendor.(G)

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  1. Isaiah 60:9 Or the trading ships

(A)Surely you shall call a nation you do not know,
(B)And nations who do not know you shall run to you,
Because of the Lord your God,
And the Holy One of Israel;
(C)For He has glorified you.”

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Surely you will summon nations(A) you know not,
    and nations you do not know will come running to you,(B)
because of the Lord your God,
    the Holy One(C) of Israel,
    for he has endowed you with splendor.”(D)

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16 (A)Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.

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16 for every trading ship[a](A)
    and every stately vessel.

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  1. Isaiah 2:16 Hebrew every ship of Tarshish

(A)My righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
(B)And My arms will judge the peoples;
(C)The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And (D)on My arm they will trust.

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My righteousness draws near speedily,
    my salvation(A) is on the way,(B)
    and my arm(C) will bring justice to the nations.
The islands(D) will look to me
    and wait in hope(E) for my arm.

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11 It shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left,
(A)From Assyria and Egypt,
From Pathros and Cush,
From Elam and Shinar,
From Hamath and the [a]islands of the sea.

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  1. Isaiah 11:11 Or coastlands

11 In that day(A) the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant(B) of his people from Assyria,(C) from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt,(D) from Cush,[a](E) from Elam,(F) from Babylonia,[b] from Hamath(G) and from the islands(H) of the Mediterranean.(I)

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  1. Isaiah 11:11 That is, the upper Nile region
  2. Isaiah 11:11 Hebrew Shinar

26 but the (A)Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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26 But the Jerusalem that is above(A) is free, and she is our mother.

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19 (A)I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and [a]Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. (B)And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall (C)bring all your brethren (D)for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.

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  1. Isaiah 66:19 So with MT, Tg.; LXX Put (cf. Jer. 46:9)

19 “I will set a sign(A) among them, and I will send some of those who survive(B) to the nations—to Tarshish,(C) to the Libyans[a] and Lydians(D) (famous as archers), to Tubal(E) and Greece,(F) and to the distant islands(G) that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.(H) They will proclaim my glory among the nations. 20 And they will bring(I) all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain(J) in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,”(K) says the Lord. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.(L)

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  1. Isaiah 66:19 Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul

The Servant, the Light to the Gentiles

49 “Listen, (A)O coastlands, to Me,
And take heed, you peoples from afar!
(B)The Lord has called Me from the womb;
From the [a]matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.

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  1. Isaiah 49:1 Lit. inward parts

The Servant of the Lord

49 Listen(A) to me, you islands;(B)
    hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born(C) the Lord called(D) me;
    from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.(E)

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Praise to the Lord

10 (A)Sing to the Lord a new song,
And His praise from the ends of the earth,
(B)You who go down to the sea, and [a]all that is in it,
You coastlands and you inhabitants of them!

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  1. Isaiah 42:10 Lit. its fullness

Song of Praise to the Lord

10 Sing(A) to the Lord a new song,(B)
    his praise(C) from the ends of the earth,(D)
you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,(E)
    you islands,(F) and all who live in them.

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He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
(A)And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”

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    he will not falter or be discouraged
till he establishes justice(A) on earth.
    In his teaching(B) the islands(C) will put their hope.”(D)

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Sons and Heirs

26 For you (A)are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

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26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God(A) through faith,

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imploring us with much urgency [a]that we would receive the gift and (A)the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. And not only as we had hoped, but they first (B)gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the (C)will of God.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 8:4 NU, M omit that we would receive, thus changing text to urgency for the favor and fellowship

they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing(A) in this service(B) to the Lord’s people.(C) And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.

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15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for (A)he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before (B)Gentiles, (C)kings, and the (D)children[a] of Israel.

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  1. Acts 9:15 Lit. sons

15 But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument(A) to proclaim my name to the Gentiles(B) and their kings(C) and to the people of Israel.

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