Romans 9:28
Good News Translation
for the Lord will quickly settle his full account with the world."

New Revised Standard Version
for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth quickly and decisively.”

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will be quick and sure to do on earth what he has warned he will do."

New American Bible
for decisively and quickly will the Lord execute sentence upon the earth.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth.

work.

Isaiah 28:22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.

Isaiah 30:12-14 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have leaned upon it: . . .

Daniel 9:26,27 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. . . .

Matthew 24:21 For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.

in righteousness.

Psalm 9:8 And he shall judge the world in equity, he shall judge the people in justice.

Psalm 65:5 Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.

Isaiah 5:16 And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified in justice.

Acts 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he judge and fight.

Context
The Calling of the Gentiles
27And Isaias cried out concerning Israel: If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. 28For he shall finish his word and cut it short in justice: because a short word shall the Lord make upon the earth. 29And Isaias foretold: Unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a seed, we had been made as Sodom and we had been like unto Gomorrha.…
Cross References
Isaiah 10:22
For if thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, a remnant of them shall be converted, the consumption abridged shall overflow with justice.

Isaiah 10:23
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, and an abridgment in the midst of all the land.

Romans 9:27
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