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Romans 9:28

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the LORD do on the land.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

In Context

27And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved;

29And according as Isaiah says before, “Except the LORD of Hosts left to us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and we had been made like Gomorrah.”

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Cross References

Psalms 9:8And He judges the world in righteousness, || He judges the peoples in uprightness.

Isaiah 5:16And YHWH of Hosts is high in judgment, || And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,

Isaiah 28:22And now, do not show yourselves scorners, || Lest your bands are strong, || For a consumption, that is determined, || I have heard, by the Lord, YHWH of Hosts, || [Is] for all the land.

Daniel 9:26And after the sixty-two periods of seven, Messiah is cut off, but not for Himself, and the people of the leader who is coming destroy the city and the holy place; and its end [is] with a flood, and until the end [is] war, [and] desolations [are] determined.

Acts 17:31because He set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a Man whom He ordained, having given assurance to all, having raised Him out of the dead.”

Matthew Henry on Romans 9:26-30

Conversion of the Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. 27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in… Read the whole commentary →

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