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Isaiah 49:18

Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.

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Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride.

KJV

Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שְׂאִֽי־se.'i-lift upH5375 →
סָבִ֤יבsa.Vivall aroundH5439 →
עֵינַ֙יִךְ֙'ei.Na.yikheyes yourH5869 →
וּרְאִ֔יu.re.'Iand seeH7200 →
כֻּלָּ֖םku.Lamall of themH3605 →
נִקְבְּצ֣וּnik.be.Tzuthey have gathered togetherH6908 →
בָֽאוּ־va.'u-they have comeH935 →
לָ֑ךְLakhto you
חַי־chai-[by] [the] lifeH2416 →
אָ֣נִי'A.niof meH589 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
כִּ֤יkithatH3588 →
כֻלָּם֙khu.Lamall of themH3605 →
כָּעֲדִ֣יka.'a.Dilike <the> ornament[s]H5716 →
תִלְבָּ֔שִׁיtil.Ba.shiyou will put onH3847 →
וּֽתְקַשְּׁרִ֖יםu.te.ka.she.Rimand you will tie on themH7194 →
כַּכַּלָּֽה׃ka.ka.Lahlike <the> brideH3618 →

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Romans 14:11It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”Isaiah 54:1–3“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.Isaiah 66:12–13For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.Matthew 24:31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.Isaiah 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.Jeremiah 43:12I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.Isaiah 60:4Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.Isaiah 66:20And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”Isaiah 49:12Behold, they will come from far away, from the north and from the west, and from the land of Aswan.”Isaiah 43:5–6Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.Isaiah 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”Ezekiel 33:11Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’Numbers 14:21“Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”Hebrews 6:13–18When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,

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