Zechariah 8:7
Good News Translation
I will rescue my people from the lands where they have been taken,

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the LORD of hosts: I will save my people from the east country and from the west country;

Contemporary English Version
I will save those who were taken to lands in the east and the west,

New American Bible
Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am going to rescue my people from the land of the rising sun, and from the land of the setting sun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.

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Psalm 107:2,3 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. . . .

Isaiah 11:11-16 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea. . . .

Isaiah 27:12,13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel. . . .

Isaiah 43:5,6 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. . . .

Isaiah 49:12 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country.

Isaiah 59:19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:

Isaiah 66:19,20 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles: . . .

Jeremiah 31:8 Behold I will bring them from the north country, and will gather them from the ends of the earth and among them shall be the blind, and the lame, the woman with child, and she that is bringing forth, together, a great company of them returning hither.

Ezekiel 37:19-25 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that are associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Juda, and will make them one stick: and they shall be one in his hand. . . .

Hosea 11:10,11 They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear. . . .

Amos 9:14,15 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled. . . .

Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.

Romans 11:25-27 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in. . . .

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Psalm 50:1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof:

Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.

Context
The Restoration of Jerusalem
6Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it seem hard in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days: shall it be hard in my eyes, saith the Lord of hosts? 7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the going down of the sun.8And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and in justice.…
Cross References
Psalm 107:3
From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.

Isaiah 11:11
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 27:12
And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.

Isaiah 27:13
And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 43:5
Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west.

Ezekiel 36:33
Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I shall cleanse you from all your iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous places,

Zechariah 10:6
And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph: and I will bring them back again, because I will have mercy on them: and they shall be as they were when I had not cast them off, for I am the Lord their God, and will hear them.

Zechariah 8:6
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