Romans 9:28

because the Lord will punish completely and speedily the people who live on this earth, as he said that he would do.

Translation for Translators

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

27Isaiah also exclaimed concerning the Israelites: Even though the Israelites are so many that no one can count them, like sand particles on the beach beside the ocean, only a small part of them will be saved { God will save only a small part of them},

29Also, we can understand from what the prophet Isaiah said that God would not save anyone if he did not show mercy: If the Lord, who controls everything in heaven, had not mercifully allowed some of our descendants to survive, we would have become like the people of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were [SIM, DOU] completely destroyed.

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Cross References

Psalms 9:8and he will judge all the people in [SYN] the world justly; he will judge the people of all nations fairly [DOU].

Isaiah 5:16But the Commander of the armies of angels will be exalted/praised because of his acting justly. God will show that he is holy by doing righteous/just deeds.

Isaiah 28:22The Commander of the armies of angels has told me that he is going to destroy the entire land. So do not ridicule what I say any more, because if you do that he will punish you even more severely.

Daniel 9:26After those 434 years, the leader/king whom God has appointed will be killed when it seems that he will have accomplished nothing ◄unjustly/without having done anything wrong►. After that, the temple will be destroyed by the army of a powerful ruler. The city and the temple will be destroyed like a flood [MET] destroys everything. That will be the beginning of the war and destruction that God has decreed will happen.

Acts 17:31He tells us that on a certain day that he has chosen he is going to judge all of us(inc) people in [MTY] the world. He has appointed a certain man to judge us, and that man will judge each of us fairly/justly. God has shown to all people that he has appointed that man to judge everyone, because God ◄caused him to become alive again after he had died/raised him from 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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