Isaiah 56:8

I, Yahweh, the Lord, the one who will bring back the people of Israel who have been ◄forced to go/exiled► to other countries, say this: 'I will bring from other countries many more people to join those Israelis whom I have brought back.'”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

In Context

7I will bring them to my sacred hill in Jerusalem, I will cause them to be very joyful in my temple where people pray to me, and I will accept the sacrifices that they completely burn on my altar and other sacrifices that they offer. I will do those things for them because I want my temple to be a building where people of all nations pray to me.

9“You surrounding nations have armies that are like [MET] animals in the forest; come and attack/destroy Israel!

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Cross References

Genesis 49:10There will always be a ruler [MTY] from the descendants of Judah [MTY]. Each one will hold a scepter/staff to show that he has authority as a king. He will do that until the one to whom the scepter belongs comes, the one to whom the nations will bring tribute and show that they will obey him.

Psalms 107:2Those whom Yahweh has saved should tell others that he has rescued them from their enemies.

Isaiah 11:11At that time, Yahweh will ◄reach out his hand/use his power► as he did long ago; he will enable those who had been ◄exiled from/forced to leave► Israel to return home, from Assyria, from northern Egypt, from southern Egypt, from Ethiopia, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath, and from all the distant countries near the sea.

Isaiah 43:6I will command the rulers of the nations to the north and to the south, ‘Allow all the people of Israel to return to their country, from the most distant places on the earth.

Isaiah 49:12My people will return from far away; some will come from the north, some from the west, some from southern Egypt.”

Isaiah 54:7I abandoned you people of Jerusalem for a while, but now I am saying, ‘I will take you back.’

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 56:4-9

Encouragement to the Sincere; Encouragement to the Gentiles. ( b. c. 706.) 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord , speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of… Read the whole commentary →

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