Israel
Isaiah 14:1-3
Isaiah · ~700 BC · Status: Future · Confidence: 60%
“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 cleave to the house of Jacob.”
King James Version · the opening — all 3 verses are below
God's mercy restoring Israel to their land with foreigners joining them, fulfilled in the return from Babylon and again in modern Israel.
Read the whole passage — all 3 verses (KJV)
14:1For 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 cleave to the house of Jacob.
14:2And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Fulfillment References
Romans 11:26 Ephesians 2:13-16
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'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.' God's mercy regathers Israel and joins the nations to them — a foreshadowing of the one people, Jew and Gentile, gathered in Christ (Eph. 2:13-16; Rom. 11:26). The God who has mercy on Jacob is the Lord Jesus, in whom the strangers are made fellow-heirs.
JewishGod's mercy in restoring Israel to the land after exile, with Gentiles joining and serving them; the reversal of captivity.
CatholicThe mercy on Jacob and the joining of the nations fulfilled as Gentiles are grafted in with believing Israel in Christ.
ProtestantRestoration of Israel with Gentiles joined — read of the post-exilic return and of the one people in Christ (Eph. 2); dispensationalists also see a future literal fulfillment.
AcademicAn introductory restoration frame to the Babylon taunt-song; the 'strangers joined' motif reflects the inclusion of foreigners in the restored community.
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