“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    “For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.

  • KJV King James Version

    For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great compassion will I gather thee.

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Cross-references (19)

Passages linked to Isaiah 54:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 30:5 For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
  • Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
  • Micah 4:6 “In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
  • 2 Peter 3:8 But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
  • Deuteronomy 30:3 that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
  • Isaiah 60:4 “Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms.
  • Isaiah 66:18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
  • 2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
  • Matthew 23:37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  • Isaiah 56:8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”
  • Psalms 106:47 Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!
  • Isaiah 27:12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
  • Isaiah 40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
  • Isaiah 43:5-6 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west. I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
  • Isaiah 60:10 “Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
  • Ezekiel 36:24 “ ‘ “For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  • Isaiah 11:11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Isaiah 49:18 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.
  • Ephesians 1:10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken…

Isa 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

Ver. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee.] I have made thee believe so, at least, by suffering thee to "fall into manifold temptations," {Jas 1:2} but for thy greatest good: {Heb 12:11} as (1.) For probation; (2.) For prevention; (3.) For purgation; (4.) For preparation to mercy. And although it should last as long as life, yet that were but for a moment. For what is life but a spot of time between two eternities? And God therefore taketh liberty to do it, because he hath such an eternity of time to reveal his kindness in; time enough for kisses and embraces. But usually God taketh off the smarting plaster as soon as it hath eaten away the proud flesh.

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But with great mercies.] Heb., With great tender mercies, such as the mother beareth towards the babe of her own body. {1Ki 3:16} God’s mercies are more than maternal.

Will I gather thee.] Or, Take thee up. {Psa 27:10} {See Trapp on "Psa 27:10"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For a small moment; for the space of some…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For a small moment have I forsaken thee,.... The…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain For a moment - In comparison of God's everlasting…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. For a small moment - "In a…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For a small moment - The Chaldee and Syriac…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain small moment--as compared with Israel's coming long prosperity (Isa…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7, 8. For a small moment — These verses…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7, 8. Jehovah’s anger was but a momentary interruption…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) For a small moment.—Historically the words point to…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 7, 8. For a small moment have I…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain For a small moment have I forsaken thee
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Isa_54:7-10. For a small moment have I forsaken thee,…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 54:7-8 The pain of separation would be brief compared…

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