Zechariah 8:7
This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;
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Nehemiah 1:9But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
Psalms 107:2Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;
Psalms 147:2The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.
Isaiah 11:12And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.
Isaiah 43:5Have no fear, for I am with you: I will take your seed from the east, and get you together from the west;
Isaiah 59:19So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 8:2-9
Encouraging Prospects. ( b. c. 517.) 1 Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. 3 Thus saith the Lord ; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain. 4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and… Read the whole commentary →