Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Yahweh speaks to the exiled people of Israel, directing the cardinal directions to release and gather His scattered offspring during the restoration from captivity.

The words — הָבִ֤יאִי (ha.Vi.'i) translates literally as “bring,” and אֹמַ֤ר ('o.Mar) means “I will say,” establishing the verse as a divine command that precedes the physical gathering.

The thread — The directional gathering appears in Jeremiah 3:18, where the house of Judah returns from the north alongside Israel, and the theme of divine reception follows the call to separate in 2 Corinthians 6:17.

Why it lands — It demands recognition that God sovereignly controls geography and exile, and it requires the reader to obey the directive to leave captivity and align with the purpose for which He formed His people.

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The Hebrew words

אֹמַ֤ר'o.MarI will say לַצָּפוֹן֙la./tza.fOnto the/ north תֵּ֔נִיTe.nideliver up וּלְתֵימָ֖ןu./le./tei.Manand/ to/ [the] south אַל־'al-may not תִּכְלָ֑אִיtikh.La.'iyou withhold הָבִ֤יאִיha.Vi.'ibring בָנַי֙va.Na/isons/ my מֵרָח֔וֹקme./ra.Chokfrom/ a distance וּבְנוֹתַ֖יu./ve.no.Ta/iand/ daughters/ my מִקְצֵ֥הmi/k.Tzehfrom/ [the] end of הָאָֽרֶץ׃ha./'A.retzthe/ earth

King James Version

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

Cross-references

2 Corinthians 6:17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
Jeremiah 3:14 “Return, O faithless children,” declares the LORD, “for I am your master, and I will take you—one from a city and two from a family—and bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
Hosea 1:10 Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
Romans 9:7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
Galatians 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Psalms 107:3 and gathered from the lands, from east and west, from north and south.
Isaiah 18:7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
Romans 9:25 As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”