Isaiah 66:18
New International Version
“And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

New Living Translation
“I can see what they are doing, and I know what they are thinking. So I will gather all nations and peoples together, and they will see my glory.

English Standard Version
“For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,

Berean Standard Bible
“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

King James Bible
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

New King James Version
“For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.

New American Standard Bible
“For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all the nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

NASB 1995
“For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

NASB 1977
“For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Legacy Standard Bible
“And I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

Amplified Bible
“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time is coming to gather all nations and languages, and they will come and see My glory.

Christian Standard Bible
“Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see my glory.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; they will come and see My glory.

American Standard Version
For I know their works and their thoughts: the time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I know their works and their thoughts when I have come to gather all the nations and tongues. And they shall come and they shall see my glory

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I know their works and their imagination. I am going to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Contemporary English Version
I know everything you do and think! The time has now come to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

English Revised Version
For I know their works and their thoughts: the time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Because of their actions and their thoughts, I am coming to gather the nations of every language. They will come and see my glory.

Good News Translation
I know their thoughts and their deeds. I am coming to gather the people of all the nations. When they come together, they will see what my power can do

International Standard Version
"But as for me, I know their actions and their thoughts. Come and gather all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For I [know] their works and their thoughts; [the time] cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see My glory.

Literal Standard Version
“And I—their works and their thoughts, | I come to gather all the nations and tongues, | And they have come and seen My glory.

Majority Standard Bible
“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

New American Bible
I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; they shall come and see my glory.

NET Bible
"I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor.

New Revised Standard Version
For I know their works and their thoughts, and I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory,

New Heart English Bible
"For I know their works and their thoughts. I am coming to gather all nations and languages; and they will come and see my glory.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

World English Bible
“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

Young's Literal Translation
And I -- their works and their thoughts, I come to gather all the nations and tongues, And they have come and seen My honour.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Final Judgments Against the Wicked
17“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD. 18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory. 19I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. So they will proclaim My glory among the nations.…

Cross References
Psalm 97:6
The heavens proclaim His righteousness; all the peoples see His glory.

Psalm 139:2
You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Isaiah 11:9
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

Isaiah 45:22
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 52:10
The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 55:8
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the LORD.

Isaiah 56:8
Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: "I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered."


Treasury of Scripture

For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

I know

Isaiah 37:28
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

Deuteronomy 31:21
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

their thoughts

Job 42:2
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

Ezekiel 38:10
Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

Matthew 9:4
And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

that I

Isaiah 2:2
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

Psalm 67:2
That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

Psalm 72:11,17
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him…

and see

Isaiah 65:10
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Ezekiel 39:21
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

John 17:24
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

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Isaiah 66
1. The glorious God will be served in humble sincerity
5. He comforts the humble by showing the confusion of their enemies
7. With the marvelous growth
10. And the gracious benefits of the church
15. God's severe judgments against the wicked
18. The Gentiles shall have an holy church
24. And see the damnation of the wicked














(18) For I know their works . . .--The Hebrew has no verb, either--as in the Quos ego . . . of Virgil, 'n., 1:139--for the sake of emphasis, or through an accidental omission in transcription. I know is supplied by many versions and commentators; I will punish or I have seen by others. The thought, in any case, is that the eye of Jehovah sees the evil things that are done in the secret places, caves or groves, in which the heathen rites were celebrated.

All nations and tongues . . .--The phrase, though not incompatible with Isaiah's authorship, is specially characteristic of the prophets of the Exile (Daniel 3:4; Daniel 3:7; Daniel 3:29; Daniel 4:1; Zechariah 8:23). . . .

Verse 18. - For I know their works. There is no verb in the Hebrew text, from which something has evidently fallen out. Mr. Cheyne supplies, "I will punish;" Gratz, "I have seen." "I know" is supported by the Targums, the Syriac Version, several manuscripts of the Septuagint, and the authorities of Saadiya, Vitringa, and Gesenius. And their thoughts; i.e. I know, not only their works, but even the thoughts from which the works proceeded. It shall some; i.e. "the time shall come." (For the full phrase, see Jeremiah 51:33; Ezekiel 7:7, 12.) All nations and tongues. This expression has been corn-pared with Daniel's "kindreds and nations and languages" (Daniel 3:4, 7, 29; Daniel 4:1; Daniel 5:19, etc.), and has been regarded as a sign of late authorship. But "nations' and "tongues" are coupled together in Scripture as early as Genesis (Genesis 10:5, 20). They shall come, and see my glory; i.e. "see the glory that I shall get me upon my enemies" (vers. 15-17).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“For I [know]
וְאָנֹכִ֗י (wə·’ā·nō·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

their works
מַעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ (ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

and thoughts;
וּמַחְשְׁבֹ֣תֵיהֶ֔ם (ū·maḥ·šə·ḇō·ṯê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4284: A contrivance, a texture, machine, intention, plan

the time is coming
בָּאָ֕ה (bā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to gather
לְקַבֵּ֥ץ (lə·qab·bêṣ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6908: To gather, collect

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

nations
הַגּוֹיִ֖ם (hag·gō·w·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

and tongues,
וְהַלְּשֹׁנ֑וֹת (wə·hal·lə·šō·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - common plural
Strong's 3956: The tongue

and they will come
וּבָ֖אוּ (ū·ḇā·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and see
וְרָא֥וּ (wə·rā·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7200: To see

My glory.
כְּבוֹדִֽי׃ (kə·ḇō·w·ḏî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness


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