Isaiah 60:8
Good News Translation
What are these ships that skim along like clouds, Like doves returning home?

New Revised Standard Version
Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

Contemporary English Version
What is that sailing by like clouds or like doves flying home?

New American Bible
Who are these that fly along like a cloud, like doves to their cotes?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?

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Isaiah 60:4 Lift up thy eyes round about, and see: all these are gathered together, they are come to thee: thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall rise up at thy side.

Isaiah 45:22 Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

Luke 13:29 And there shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south: and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

Revelation 7:9 After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

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Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

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Genesis 8:8-11 He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth. . . .

Context
Future Glory for Zion
7All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty. 8Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?9For, the islands wait for me, and the ships of the sea in the beginning: that I may bring thy sons from afar: their silver, and their gold with them, to the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.…
Cross References
Isaiah 49:21
And thou shalt say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they?

Hosea 11:11
And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their own houses, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 60:7
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