Zechariah 8:7
Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the country of the setting of the sun;
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Nehemiah 1:9But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them: [then] though your outcasts should be at the utmost parts of heaven, from there will I gather them, and I will bring them unto the place which I have chosen to let my name dwell there.
Psalms 107:2Thus let the Lord's redeemed say, even those whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary;
Psalms 147:2The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: the outcasts of Israel will he gather together;
Isaiah 11:12And he will lift up an ensign unto the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel; and the dispersed of Judah will he collect together from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 43:5Fear not, for I am with thee; from the east will I bring thy seed, and from the west will I gather thee.
Isaiah 59:19And they shall fear from the west the name of the Lord, and from the rising of the sun his glory; for there shall come distress like the stream which the Spirit of the Lord urgeth forward.
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 →