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For a brief moment I abandoned you,
    but with great compassion I will gather you.(A)

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20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
    until the wrath is past.(A)

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For his anger is but for a moment;
    his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may linger for the night,
    but joy comes with the morning.(A)

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But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.(A)

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Restoration Promised after Exile

On that day, says the Lord,
    I will assemble the lame
and gather those who have been driven away
    and those whom I have afflicted.(A)

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18 for I know[a] their works and their thoughts.

I am[b] coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 66.18 Gk Syr: Heb lacks know
  2. 66.18 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb it is

Lift up your eyes and look around;
    they all gather together; they come to you;
your sons shall come from far away,
    and your daughters shall be carried in their nurses’ arms.(A)

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then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.(A)

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The Lament over Jerusalem

37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

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24 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.(A)

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10 Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and their kings shall minister to you,
for in my wrath I struck you down,
    but in my favor I have had mercy on you.(A)

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Thus says the Lord God,
    who gathers the outcasts of Israel:
I will gather others to them
    besides those already gathered.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 56.8 Heb besides his gathered ones

Do not fear, for I am with you;
    I will bring your offspring from the east,
    and from the west I will gather you;(A)
I will say to the north, “Give them up,”
    and to the south, “Do not withhold;
bring my sons from far away
    and my daughters from the end of the earth—(B)

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11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd;
    he will gather the lambs in his arms
and carry them in his bosom
    and gently lead the mother sheep.(A)

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12 On that day the Lord will thresh from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.(A)

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47 Save us, O Lord our God,
    and gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
    and glory in your praise.(A)

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10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.(A)

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17 For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,(A)

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18 Lift up your eyes all around and see;
    they all gather; they come to you.
As I live, says the Lord,
    you shall put all of them on like an ornament,
    and like a bride you shall bind them on.(A)

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11 On that day the Lord will again raise[a] his hand to recover the remnant that is left of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11.11 Cn Compare Gk: Heb the Lord will again a second time