Isaiah 54:7

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“For a short time I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 26:20 : 20 Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms! Close your doors behind you! Hide for a little while, until his angry judgment is over!
  • Mic 4:6 : 6 Restoration Will Follow Crisis“In that day,” says the LORD,“I will gather the lame, and assemble the outcasts whom I injured.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison
  • Eph 1:10 : 10 toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ– the things in heaven and the things on earth.
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
  • Deut 30:3 : 3 the LORD your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you.
  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.
  • Ps 106:47 : 47 Deliver us, O LORD, our God! Gather us from among the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 At that time the Lord will again lift his hand to reclaim the remnant of his people from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the seacoasts.
  • Isa 27:12 : 12 At that time the LORD will shake the tree, from the Euphrates River to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.
  • Isa 43:5-6 : 5 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. From the east I will bring your descendants; from the west I will gather you. 6 I will say to the north,‘Hand them over!’ and to the south,‘Don’t hold any back!’ Bring my sons from distant lands, and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,
  • Isa 49:18 : 18 Look all around you! All of them gather to you. As surely as I live,” says the LORD,“you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry; you will put them on as if you were a bride.
  • Isa 56:8 : 8 The Sovereign LORD says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel:“I will still gather them up.”
  • Isa 60:4 : 4 Look all around you! They all gather and come to you– your sons come from far away and your daughters are escorted by guardians.
  • Isa 60:10 : 10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.
  • Isa 66:18 : 18 “I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor.
  • Ezek 36:24 : 24 “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 54:8-11
    4 verses
    86%

    8In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD.

    9“As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.

    10Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.

    11“O afflicted one, driven away, and unconsoled! Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony and I lay your foundation with lapis lazuli.

  • Isa 54:4-6
    3 verses
    84%

    4Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame! Don’t be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated! You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth; you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment.

    5For your husband is the one who made you– the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called“God of the entire earth.”

    6“Indeed, the LORD will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected,” says your God.

  • Isa 49:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14The Lord Remembers Zion“Zion said,‘The LORD has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me.’

    15Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!

    16Look, I have inscribed your name on my palms; your walls are constantly before me.

  • Jer 30:11
    75%

    11For I, the LORD, affirm that I will be with you and will rescue you. I will completely destroy all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you, but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39So I will carry you far off and throw you away. I will send both you and the city I gave to you and to your ancestors out of my sight.

    40I will bring on you lasting shame and lasting disgrace which will never be forgotten!’”

  • Jer 29:14
    74%

    14I will make myself available to you,’ says the LORD.‘Then I will reverse your plight and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you,’ says the LORD.‘I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.’

  • Jer 3:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19“I thought to myself,‘Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son! What a joy it would be for me to give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!’ I thought you would call me,‘Father’ and would never cease being loyal to me.

    20But, you have been unfaithful to me, nation of Israel, like an unfaithful wife who has left her husband,” says the LORD.

  • Isa 60:15
    73%

    15You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

  • Jer 15:6
    73%

    6I, the LORD, say:‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”

  • Deut 4:31
    73%

    31(for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

  • Isa 62:4
    72%

    4You will no longer be called,“Abandoned,” and your land will no longer be called“Desolate.” Indeed, you will be called“My Delight is in Her,” and your land“Married.” For the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him.

  • Zeph 3:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    18“As for those who grieve because they cannot attend the festivals– I took them away from you; they became tribute and were a source of shame to you.

    19Look, at that time I will deal with those who mistreated you. I will rescue the lame sheep and gather together the scattered sheep. I will take away their humiliation and make the whole earth admire and respect them.

    20At that time I will lead you– at the time I gather you together. Be sure of this! I will make all the nations of the earth respect and admire you when you see me restore you,” says the LORD.

  • Lam 5:20
    72%

    20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

  • Jer 3:14
    72%

    14“Come back to me, my wayward sons,” says the LORD,“for I am your true master. If you do, I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.

  • Jer 13:25
    72%

    25This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.

  • Isa 49:8
    72%

    8This is what the LORD says:“At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, to rebuild the land and to reassign the desolate property.

  • Mic 4:6
    72%

    6Restoration Will Follow Crisis“In that day,” says the LORD,“I will gather the lame, and assemble the outcasts whom I injured.

  • Jer 30:14
    72%

    14All your allies have abandoned you. They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.

  • Deut 30:3
    72%

    3the LORD your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he has scattered you.

  • Jer 31:3
    72%

    3In a far-off land the LORD will manifest himself to them. He will say to them,‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.

  • Jer 12:7
    71%

    7“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.

  • Ps 27:10
    71%

    10Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the LORD would take me in.

  • Lam 3:31
    71%

    31כ(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever.

  • Isa 44:22
    71%

    22I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”

  • Isa 30:19
    71%

    19For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.

  • Ezek 16:60
    71%

    60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you.

  • Hos 2:19
    71%

    19I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.

  • Hos 14:4
    71%

    4Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.

  • Isa 60:10
    71%

    10Foreigners will rebuild your walls; their kings will serve you. Even though I struck you down in my anger, I will restore my favor and have compassion on you.

  • Jer 2:32
    70%

    32Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.

  • Isa 56:8
    70%

    8The Sovereign LORD says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel:“I will still gather them up.”

  • Ps 77:7
    70%

    7I asked,“Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor?

  • Jer 42:12
    70%

    12I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.’

  • Jer 30:17
    70%

    17Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the LORD, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for.”

  • Jer 49:11
    70%

    11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

  • Jer 49:15
    70%

    15The LORD says to Edom,“I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind.

  • Isa 43:5
    70%

    5Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. From the east I will bring your descendants; from the west I will gather you.

  • Jer 51:5
    70%

    5“For Israel and Judah will not be forsaken by their God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

  • Jer 3:12
    70%

    12The Lord Calls on Israel and Judah to Repent“Go and shout this message to my people in the countries in the north. Tell them,‘Come back to me, wayward Israel,’ says the LORD.‘I will not continue to look on you with displeasure. For I am merciful,’ says the LORD.‘I will not be angry with you forever.