My hand found the wealth of the peoples as if it were in a nest. Just as one gathers abandoned eggs, I have gathered the entire earth; no creature fluttered a wing or opened a mouth to chirp.”

God will raise a signal for the nations and gather the outcast men of Israel. God will collect the dispersed women of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

It will be as when harvesters gather grain. God will harvest armfuls at a time, like one who gathers grain in the Rephaim Valley.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit, shut into a prison, and punished after many days.

They gathered spoil like insects; they rushed upon it like a swarm of locusts.

There the snake will nest and lay eggs and brood and hatch in its shadow. There too vultures will gather, each with its mate.

Consult the Lord’s scroll and read: Not one of these will be missing; none will lack its mate. God’s own mouth has commanded; God’s own spirit has gathered them.

Like a shepherd, God will tend the flock; he will gather lambs in his arms and lift them onto his lap. He will gently guide the nursing ewes.

Don’t fear, I am with you. From the east I’ll bring your children; from the west I’ll gather you.

All the nations are gathered together; the peoples are assembled. Which of them announced this? Who predicted to us the past events? Let them bring their witnesses as a defense; let them hear and say, “It’s true!”

All its worshippers will be ashamed, and its artisans, who are only human. They will all gather and stand, tremble and be ashamed together.

Gather and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations! Those who carry their wooden idols don’t know; those who pray to a god who won’t save.

Gather yourselves, all of you, and listen. Who among you announced these things? “The Lord loves him. He will do what God wants with Babylon and with the descendants of Chaldea.”

Look up all around and see: they are all gathered; they come to you. As surely as I live, says the Lord, you will put them all on like ornaments, bind them on like a bride.

says the Lord God, who gathers Israel’s outcasts. I will gather still others to those I have already gathered.

The righteous person perishes, and no one takes it to heart. Loyal people are gathered together, and no one understands that because of evil the righteous one passed away.

When you cry out, let those things you’ve gathered save you! The wind will lift them all; one breath will take them away. but those taking refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.

Lift up your eyes and look all around: they are all gathered; they have come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters on caregivers’ hips.

All Kedar’s sheep will be gathered for you; rams from Nebaioth will be your offerings; they will be accepted on my altar, and I will glorify my splendid house.

Those who harvest will eat it and will praise the Lord; those who gather will drink it in my holy courtyards.

Worshippers gathered from the nations

Because of their actions and thoughts, I’m coming to gather all nations and cultures. They will come to see my glory.