The Lord Will Restore Israel
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"Therefore behold, the r days are coming," says the LORD, "that it shall no more be said, 'The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'
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"but, 'The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the s north and from all the lands where He had driven them.' For t I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
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"Behold, I will send for many u fishermen," says the LORD, "and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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"For My v eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.
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"And first I will repay w double for their iniquity and their sin, because x they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols."
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O LORD, y my strength and my fortress,
z My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
"Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and a unprofitable things."
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Will a man make gods for himself,
b Which are not gods?
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"Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know,
I will cause them to know
My hand and My might;
And they shall know that c My name is the LORD.
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Cross References
Isaiah 43:18
Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.
Jeremiah 23:7
"Therefore, behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that they shall no longer say, 'As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,'
Jeremiah 23:8
"but, 'As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.' And they shall dwell in their own land."
Ezekiel 37:21 - 25
Then say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an inheritance to your fathers.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 24:6
For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
Jeremiah 30:3
'For behold, the days are coming,' says the LORD, 'that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah,' says the LORD. 'And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'"
Jeremiah 32:37
Behold, I will gather them out of all countries where I have driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in great wrath; I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.
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Cross References
Amos 4:2
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days shall come upon you When He will take you away with fishhooks, And your posterity with fishhooks.
Habakkuk 1:15
They take up all of them with a hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:9
"For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throug...
Job 34:21
For His eyes are on the ways of man, And He see...
Psalms 90:8
You have set our iniquities before You, Our sec...
Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the ...
Jeremiah 23:24
Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I ...
Jeremiah 32:19
You are great in counsel and mighty in work, fo...
Zechariah 4:10
For who has despised the day of small things? F...
Luke 12:2
For there is nothing covered that will not be r...
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until ...
Hebrews 4:13
And there is no creature hidden from His sight,...
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Cross References
Isaiah 40:2
"Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all her sins."
Jeremiah 17:18
Let them be ashamed who persecute me, But do not let me be put to shame; Let them be dismayed, But do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of doom, And destroy them with double destruction!
Revelation 18:6
Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her.
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Cross References
Ezekiel 43:7
And He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name, they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places.
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Cross References
Psalms 18:1
I WILL love You, O LORD, my strength.
Psalms 18:2
The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Isaiah 25:4
For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 17:17
Do not be a terror to me; You are my hope in the day of doom.
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Cross References
Isaiah 44:10
Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
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Cross References
Psalms 115:4 - 8
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of me...
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire; for the...
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not go...
Jeremiah 5:7
How shall I pardon you for this? Your children ...
Hosea 8:4 - 6
They set up kings, but not by Me; They made pri...
Galatians 4:8
But then, indeed, when you did not know God, yo...
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Cross References
Exodus 15:3
The LORD is a man of war; The LORD is His name.
Psalms 83:18
That they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth.
Isaiah 43:3
For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Jeremiah 33:2
Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name):
Amos 5:8
He made the Pleiades and Orion; He turns the shadow of death into morning And makes the day dark as night; He calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth; The LORD is His name.
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