Isaiah 54:7 "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.

English Standard Version
For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.

New American Standard Bible
"For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great compassion I will gather you.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I deserted you for a brief moment, but I will take you back with great compassion.

International Standard Version
"For a brief moment I abandoned you; but I'll gather you with great compassion.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a, small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.

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

Young's Literal Translation
In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee,

Cross References

James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Psalm 30:5
For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Isaiah 11:12
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 12:1
And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.

Isaiah 14:1
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall join to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 26:20
Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over.

Isaiah 27:8
In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 43:5
Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;

Isaiah 49:13
Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy on his afflicted.

Isaiah 49:18
Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, said the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

54:6-10 As God is slow to anger, so he is swift to show mercy. And how sweet the returns of mercy would be, when God should come and comfort them! He will have mercy on them. God's gathering his people takes rise from his mercy, not any merit of theirs; and it is with great mercies, with everlasting kindness. The wrath is little, the mercies great; the wrath for a moment, the kindness everlasting. We are neither to despond under afflictions, nor to despair of relief. Mountains have been shaken and removed, but the promises of God never were broken by any event. Mountains and hills also signify great men. Creature-confidences shall fail; but when our friends fail us, our God does not. All this is alike applicable to the church at large, and to each believer. God will rebuke and correct his people for sins; but he will not cast them off. Let this encourage us to give the more diligence to make our calling and election sure.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. small moment—as compared with Israel's coming long prosperity (Isa 26:20; 60:10). So the spiritual Israel (Ps 30:5; 2Co 4:17).

gather thee—to Myself from thy dispersions.