Romans 9:28
Romans chapter 9 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.
Context
v.27And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
v.28This passage
v.29And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 19:11
And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
- Isaiah 5:16
but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
- Psalms 9:8
And he will judge the world in righteousness, He will minister judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
- Isaiah 10:23
For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.
- Psalms 65:5
By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:
- Isaiah 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely thereon;