⁶ For the LORD shall call thee, being as a desolate sorrowful woman, and as a young wife that hath broken her wedlock, sayeth thy God. ⁷ A little while have I forsaken thee, but with great mercifulness shall I take thee up unto me. ⁸ When I was angry, I hid my face from thee for a little season, but through everlasting goodness shall I pardon thee, sayeth the LORD thine avenger.

Cross References

Isaiah 26:20

So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast.

Deuteronomy 30:3

then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and go and fetch thee again from all the nations, among which the LORD thy God shall have scattered thee.

Psalm 30:5

For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life; heaviness may well endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psalm 106:47

Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise.

Isaiah 11:11

At the same time shall the LORD take in hand again, to conquer the remnant of his people which are left alive: From the Assyrians, Egyptians, Arabians, Ethiopians, Elamites, Chaldeans, Antiochians and Islands of the sea.

Isaiah 27:12

In that time shall the LORD shoot from the swift water of Euphrates, unto the river of Egypt. And there shall the children be chosen out one by one.

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a herdsman. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that bear young.

Isaiah 43:5-6

Fear not, for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee together from the West.

Isaiah 49:18

Lift up thine eyes, and look about thee: all these shall gather them together, and come to thee. As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD, thou shalt put them all upon thee as an apparel, and gird them to thee, as an bride doth her jewels.

Isaiah 56:8

Thus sayeth the LORD God which gathereth together the scattered of Israel: I will bring yet another congregation to him.

Isaiah 60:4

Lift up thine eyes round about and see. All these are gathered together and are come unto thee. Thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be ever by thy side.

Isaiah 60:10

Strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall do thee service. For when I am angry, I smite thee; and when it pleaseth me, I pardon thee.

Isaiah 66:18

For I will come to gather all people and tongues with their works and imaginations: these shall come, and see my glory.

Ezekiel 36:24

And I will take you from the heathen, and will gather you out from all lands and will bring you out of your own country.

Micah 4:6

At the same time, sayeth the LORD, will I gather up the lame and the outcasts, and such as I have chastened;

Matthew 23:37

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her chicks under her wings? But ye would not.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us,

Ephesians 1:10

the same in himself to have it declared when the time were full come: that all things, both the things which are in heaven, and also the things which are in earth, should be gathered together, even in Christ. That is to say, in him

2 Peter 3:8

Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.