Isaiah 55:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

Thou shalt

Nations

He

General references

Psalm 102:15

Jeremiah 30:9

Zechariah 8:22

Bible References

Thou shalt

Then in that day
The nations will resort to the root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a

signal for the peoples;

And His resting place will be glorious.

Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.

The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered.”

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,

Until Shiloh comes,

And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation;

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands—

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Nations

“Then you will see and be radiant,
And your heart will thrill and rejoice;
Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you,
The wealth of the nations will come to you.

Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”

“Many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.

He

“Surely the coastlands will wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
To bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
For the name of the Lord your God,
And for the Holy One of Israel because He has

glorified you.

A Psalm of David.

The Lord says to my Lord:

“Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus *said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;

Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His

servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a

Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”;

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

General references

So the

nations will fear the name of the Lord

And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.’