Ezekiel 16:53 Cross References

Ezekiel 16:53

53: "But someday I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and Samaria, and I will restore you, too.

"So now the Sovereign LORD says: I will end the captivity of my people; I will have mercy on Israel, for I am jealous for my holy reputation!

I will restore the prosperity of Egypt and bring its people back to the land of Pathros in southern Egypt from which they came. But Egypt will remain an unimportant, minor kingdom.

And Israel will be their ally. The three will be together, and Israel will be a blessing to them.
For the LORD Almighty will say, "Blessed be Egypt, my people. Blessed be Assyria, the land I have made. Blessed be Israel, my special possession!"

Let him be destroyed like the cities of old that the LORD overthrew without mercy. Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,

Oh, that salvation would come from Mount Zion to rescue Israel! For when the LORD restores his people, Jacob will shout with joy, and Israel will rejoice.

LORD, you have poured out amazing blessings on your land! You have restored the fortunes of Israel.

If the LORD Almighty had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Yet I will keep the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Then you will remember with shame all the evil you have done. I will make your sisters, Samaria and Sodom, to be your daughters, even though they are not part of our covenant.

And if these nations quickly learn the ways of my people, and if they learn to swear by my name, saying, `As surely as the LORD lives' (just as they taught my people to swear by the name of Baal), then they will be given a place among my people.

And if the Jews turn from their unbelief, God will graft them back into the tree again. He has the power to do it.
For if God was willing to take you who were, by nature, branches from a wild olive tree and graft you into his own good tree--a very unusual thing to do--he will be far more eager to graft the Jews back into the tree where they belong.
I want you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud and start bragging. Some of the Jews have hard hearts, but this will last only until the complete number of Gentiles comes to Christ.
And so all Israel will be saved. Do you remember what the prophets said about this? "A Deliverer will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel from all ungodliness.
And then I will keep my covenant with them and take away their sins."

But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Moab," says the LORD. This is the end of Jeremiah's prophecy concerning Moab.

"At that time, when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem," says the LORD,

This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "When I bring them back again, the people of Judah and its cities will again say, `The LORD bless you--O righteous home, O holy mountain!'

When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD gave him twice as much as before!

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