Isa 43:6, 49:17-22, 54:1-3, 60:4-22, 66:20, Hos 2:23, 1Pe 2:9-10 | ESV | STEP | I will say to the north , Give up , and to the south , Do not withhold ; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth ,

17 Your builders make haste; ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Your children make haste}
^dyour destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.
18 ^eLift up your eyes around and see;
they all gather, they come to you.
^fAs I live, declares the Lord,
^gyou shall put them all on as an ornament;
you shall bind them on as a bride does.
19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
and your devastated land—
^hsurely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
20 ⁱThe children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
^j‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’
21 Then you will say in your heart:
‘Who has borne me these?
^kI was bereaved and barren,
exiled and put away,
but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
from where have these come?’”
22 Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations,
^land raise my signal to the peoples;
^mand they shall bring your sons in their arms, ^{▼▼Hebrew in their bosom}
and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

Isaiah 54:1-3

The Eternal Covenant of Peace

1 ^o“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of ^pthe desolate one ^qwill be more
than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.
2 ^r“Enlarge the place of your tent,
and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
3 ^sFor you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
and your offspring will possess the nations
and will people the desolate cities.

Isaiah 60:4-22

4 ^tLift up your eyes all around, and see;
they all gather together, they come to you;
^uyour sons shall come from afar,
and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
5 Then you shall see and ^vbe 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,
^xthe wealth of the nations shall come to you.
6 A multitude of camels shall cover you,
the young camels of ^yMidian and ^zEphah;
all those from ^aaSheba shall come.
^abThey shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of ^acKedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of ^adNebaioth shall minister to you;
^aethey shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
^afand I will beautify my beautiful house.
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and ^aglike doves to their windows?
9 For ^ahthe coastlands shall hope for me,
^aithe ships of Tarshish first,
^ajto 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 ^akhe has made you beautiful.
10 ^alForeigners shall build up your walls,
and ^amtheir kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 ^anYour gates shall be open continually;
day and night they shall not be shut,
^aothat people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession.
12 ^apFor the nation and kingdom
that will not serve you shall perish;
those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13 ^aqThe glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress, the plane, and ^arthe pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 ^asThe sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending low to you,
^atand all who despised you
shall bow down at your feet;
^authey shall call you the City of the Lord,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 ^avWhereas you have been forsaken and hated,
with no one passing through,
^awI will make you majestic forever,
a joy from age to age.
16 ^axYou shall suck the milk of nations;
you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that ^ayI, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, ^azthe 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
^baand your taskmasters righteousness.
18 ^bbViolence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
^bcyou shall call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
19 ^bdThe 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}
20 Your sun shall no more go down,
nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and ^bgyour days of mourning shall be ended.
21 ^bhYour people shall all be righteous;
^bithey shall possess the land forever,
^bjthe branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I might be glorified. ^{▼▼Or that I might display my beauty}
22 ^blThe least one shall become a clan,
and the smallest one a mighty nation;
^bmI am the Lord;
in its time I will hasten it.

Isaiah 66:20

20 ^bnAnd they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations ^boas an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

Hosea 2:23

23 and ^bpI will sow her for myself in the land.
And ^bqI ^brwill have mercy on No Mercy, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ruhama}
and ^btI will say to Not My People, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ammi} ^bv‘You are my people’;
and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

1 Peter 2:9-10

9 But you are ^bwa chosen race, ^bxa royal ^bypriesthood, ^bza holy nation, ^caa people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^cbout of darkness into ^cchis marvelous light. 10 ^cdOnce you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.