Isaiah 14:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

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Isaiah 27:6

Zechariah 1:17

Zechariah 2:12

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The strangers

General references

Leviticus 25:44

Isaiah 61:5

Jeremiah 23:8

Bible References

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In days to come, Jacob will take root.
Israel will blossom and bloom
and fill the whole world with fruit.

“Proclaim further: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will once more comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”

The Lord will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

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then He will restore your fortunes, have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

I will keep My eyes on them for their good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not demolish them; I will plant them and not uproot them.

I will be found by you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and I will restore your fortunes

and gather you from all the nations and places where I banished you”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “I will restore you to the place I deported you from.”

This is what the Lord says:

I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents
and show compassion on his dwellings.
Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;
every citadel will stand on its proper site.

Watch! I am going to bring them from the northern land.
I will gather them from remote regions of the earth—
the blind and the lame will be with them,
along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth.
They will return here as a great assembly!

I am about to gather them from all the lands where I have banished them in My anger, rage and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them live in safety.

“For I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.

“So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.

The strangers

On that day Israel will form a triple alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing within the land.

Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
your walls are continually before Me.

And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord
minister to Him, love the name of Yahweh
and become His servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to My covenant—

Nations will come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your radiance.

They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

Again they wept loudly, and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday.

And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews had overcome them.

After I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

“Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me to you.

Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead for the Lord’s favor.”

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.

a light for revelation to the Gentiles

and glory to Your people Israel.

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

General references

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”