Deuteronomy 30:3

Translations

Modern

…then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Traditional

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

Literal

…then YHWH your God will turn back your captivity, and have compassion on you, and turn back and gather you from all the nations to which YHWH your God has scattered you there.

Latin

…reducet Dominus Deus tuus captivitatem tuam, ac miserebitur tui, et rursum congregabit te de cunctis populis, in quos te ante dispersit.

Original

Hebrew

English

…then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

Notes

Deuteronomy 30:2–3

with all your heart and all your soul: These words reflect the teaching found in the Shema (Israel’s great statement of covenant faith and commitment). The Shema calls Israel to love the Lord fully and faithfully (compare 6:4).

To receive God’s forgiveness and return to the land, the people had to obey the covenant. Obedience was required before restoration could take place.

Deuteronomy 30:1–10

Repentance was the only solution to the threat of judgment. The possibility of blessing and the prevention of judgment both depended on a proper relationship with the Lord.

Deuteronomy 29:2–30:20

As Moses prepared to die, he spoke a farewell message to Israel. In this message, he briefly reviewed their history since they left Egypt.

He urged the nation to promise loyalty to the Lord. This part of Deuteronomy shows that grace (God’s undeserved favor) is not only a New Testament teaching. Grace is the foundation of the Lord’s relationship with Israel.

Theme notes and profiles

Ancient Law Codes Biblical Law Compassionate Healer God Works through Prayer Making Sense of the Exile Spiritual Renewal in the Later Prophets The Broken Covenant

Related verses

Jeremiah 29:14
I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
Ezekiel 36:24
For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
Psalm 147:2
The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.
Lamentations 3:32
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
Ezekiel 34:12–13
As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
Zechariah 8:7–8
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.
Lamentations 3:22
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
Jeremiah 32:37–44
I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
Jeremiah 31:10
Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
Romans 11:31
…so they too have now disobeyed, in order that they too may now receive mercy through the mercy shown to you.
Psalm 106:45–47
And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
Romans 11:23
And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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