Isaiah 66:18 "And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

English Standard Version
“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,

New American Standard Bible
"For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

King James Bible
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see My glory.

International Standard Version
"But as for me, I know their actions and their thoughts. Come and gather all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

American Standard Version
For I know their works and their thoughts: the time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

Darby Bible Translation
And I, their works and their thoughts are before me. ... The time cometh for the gathering of all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Young's Literal Translation
And I -- their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My honour.

Cross References

Psalm 97:6
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

Psalm 139:2
You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.

Isaiah 11:9
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 45:22
Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

Isaiah 52:10
The LORD has made bore his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD.

Isaiah 56:8
The Lord GOD, which gathers the outcasts of Israel said, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered to him.

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.

Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walks in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

66:15-24 A prophetic declaration is given of the Lord's vengeance on all enemies of his church, especially that of all antichristian opposers of the gospel in the latter days. Ver.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. know—not in the Hebrew. Rather, understand the words by aposiopesis; it is usual in threats to leave the persons threatened to supply the hiatus from their own fears, owing to conscious guilt: "For I … their works and thoughts," &c.; namely, will punish [Maurer].

it shall come—the time is come that I will, &c. [Maurer].

gather … nations—against Jerusalem, where the ungodly Jews shall perish; and then the Lord at last shall fight for Jerusalem against those nations: and the survivors (Isa 66:19) shall "see God's glory" (Zec 12:8, 9; 14:1-3, 9).

tongues—which have been many owing to sin, being confounded at Babel, but which shall again be one in Christ (Da 7:14; Zep 3:9; Re 7:9, 10).