mSee 1 Kgs. 10:1
Genesis 49:10
10The ascepter shall not depart from Judah,nor the ruler’s staff bfrom between his feet,
until tribute comes to him; ▼
▼By a slight revocalization; a slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Targum) until he comes to whom it belongs; Hebrew until Shiloh comes, or until he comes to Shiloh
and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Psalms 72:8-11
8 May he have dominion from dsea to sea,and from ethe River ▼
▼That is, the Euphrates
to the gends of the earth!9May desert tribes hbow down before him,
and his enemies ilick the dust!
10May the kings of jTarshish and of kthe coastlands
render him ltribute;
may the kings of mSheba and nSeba
bring gifts!
11May all kings ofall down before him,
all nations serve him!
Isaiah 49:22-23
22 Thus says the Lord God:“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
pand raise my signal to the peoples;
qand they shall bring your sons in their arms, ▼
▼Hebrew in their bosom
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
23 sKings shall be your foster fathers,
and their queens your nursing mothers.
tWith their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
and ulick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
vthose who wait for me wshall not be put to shame.”
Isaiah 60:3-22
3 xAnd nations shall come to your light,and kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 yLift up your eyes all around, and see;
they all gather together, they come to you;
zyour sons shall come from afar,
and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
5Then you shall see and aabe radiant;
your heart shall thrill and exult, ▼
▼Hebrew your heart shall tremble and grow wide
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
acthe wealth of the nations shall come to you.
6A multitude of camels shall cover you,
the young camels of adMidian and aeEphah;
all those from afSheba shall come.
agThey shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
7All the flocks of ahKedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of aiNebaioth shall minister to you;
ajthey shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
akand I will beautify my beautiful house.
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and allike doves to their windows?
9For amthe coastlands shall hope for me,
anthe ships of Tarshish first,
aoto bring your children from afar,
their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel,
because aphe has made you beautiful.
10 aqForeigners shall build up your walls,
and artheir kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 asYour gates shall be open continually;
day and night they shall not be shut,
atthat people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession.
12 auFor the nation and kingdom
that will not serve you shall perish;
those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13 avThe glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress, the plane, and awthe pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 axThe sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending low to you,
ayand all who despised you
shall bow down at your feet;
azthey shall call you the City of the Lord,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 baWhereas you have been forsaken and hated,
with no one passing through,
bbI will make you majestic forever,
a joy from age to age.
16 bcYou shall suck the milk of nations;
you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that bdI, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, bethe Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
bfand your taskmasters righteousness.
18 bgViolence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
bhyou shall call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
19 biThe sun shall be no more
your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
give you light; ▼
▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Targum add by night
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory. ▼
▼Or your beauty
20Your sun shall no more go down,
nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and blyour days of mourning shall be ended.
21 bmYour people shall all be righteous;
bnthey shall possess the land forever,
bothe branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I might be glorified. ▼
▼Or that I might display my beauty
22 bqThe least one shall become a clan,
and the smallest one a mighty nation;
brI am the Lord;
in its time I will hasten it.
Hosea 1:9-11
9And the Lord said, bs“Call his name Not My People, ▼▼Hebrew Lo-ammi, which means not my people
for buyou are not my people, and I am not your God.” ▼▼Hebrew I am not yours
10 ▼
▼Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
Yet bxthe number of the children of Israel shall be bylike the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. bzAnd cain the place where it was said to them, cb“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, cc“Children ▼▼Or Sons
of cethe living God.” 11And cfthe children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and cgthey shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel. Zechariah 8:20-23
20“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities. 21The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ch‘Let us go at once cito entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’ 22 cjMany peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and ckto entreat the favor of the Lord. 23Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days clten men cmfrom the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for cnwe have heard that God is with you.’”
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