申命记 30:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

那時，耶和華你的　神就必使你這被擄的人回歸，他必憐憫你；耶和華你的　神必從你被分散到的萬民中，把你再召集回來。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
那 时 ， 耶 和 华 ─ 你 的 　 神 必 怜 恤 你 ， 救 回 你 这 被 掳 的 子 民 ； 耶 和 华 ─ 你 的 　 神 要 回 转 过 来 ， 从 分 散 你 到 的 万 民 中 将 你 招 聚 回 来 。

Contextual Overview

¹ When all these blessings and curses I have described happen to you, and the Lord your God has sent you away to other nations, think about these things. ² Then you and your children will return to the Lord your God, and you will obey him with your whole being in everything I am commanding you today. ³ Then the Lord your God will give you back your freedom. He will feel sorry for you, and he will bring you back again from the nations where he scattered you. ⁴ He may send you to the ends of the earth, but he will gather you and bring you back from there, ⁵ back to the land that belonged to your ancestors. It will be yours. He will give you success, and there will be more of you than there were of your ancestors. ⁶ The Lord your God will prepare you and your descendants to love him with your whole being so that you will live. ⁷ The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, who hate you and are cruel to you. ⁸ And you will again obey the Lord , keeping all his commands that I give you today. ⁹ The Lord your God will make you successful in everything you do. You will have many children, your cattle will have many calves, and your fields will produce good crops, because the Lord will again be happy with you, just as he was with your ancestors. ¹⁰ But you must obey the Lord your God by keeping all his commands and rules that are written in this Book of the Teachings. You must return to the Lord your God with your whole being.

Bible Verse Review
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then the: Psalms 106:45-47, Psalms 126:1-4, Isaiah 56:8, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 31:10, Lamentations 3:22, Lamentations 3:32, Romans 11:23, Romans 11:26, Romans 11:31

gather thee: This seems to refer to a more extensive captivity than that which the Jews suffered in Babylon. Ezra 1:1-4, Psalms 147:2, Jeremiah 32:37-44, Ezekiel 34:12, Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 36:24, Zechariah 8:7, Zechariah 8:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:14 - I will Esther 3:8 - scattered abroad Job 42:10 - turned Psalms 59:11 - scatter Isaiah 11:11 - set his hand Isaiah 14:1 - set Isaiah 27:12 - ye shall be Isaiah 43:5 - I will Isaiah 54:7 - with Jeremiah 12:14 - and pluck Jeremiah 12:15 - after Jeremiah 16:15 - that brought Jeremiah 23:3 - General Jeremiah 30:3 - that I Ezekiel 11:16 - Thus saith Ezekiel 28:25 - When Ezekiel 37:21 - General Ezekiel 39:28 - and have Hosea 2:15 - I will Joel 3:1 - when Micah 7:19 - turn James 1:1 - scattered

Cross-References

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with her and said, "Can I do what only God can do? He is the one who has kept you from having children."

Genesis 30:3
Then Rachel said, "Here is my slave girl Bilhah. Have sexual relations with her so she can give birth to a child for me. Then I can have my own family through her."

Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Genesis 50:23
During Joseph's life Ephraim had children and grandchildren, and Joseph's son Manasseh had a son named Makir. Joseph accepted Makir's children as his own.

Ruth 4:11
So all the people and elders who were at the city gate said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is coming into your home, like Rachel and Leah, who had many children and built up the people of Israel. May you become powerful in the district of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

Job 3:12
Why did my mother's knees receive me, and my mother's breasts feed me?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion on thee,.... Return them from their captivity, or bring them out of it, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; free them from their present exile, and deliver them from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law; and all this as the effect of his grace and mercy towards them, and compassion on them; see Jeremiah 30:18; The Targum of Jonathan is,

"his Word shall receive with good will your repentance;''

it being cordial and unfeigned, and fruits meet for it brought forth:

and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God scattered thee; or, "will again gather thee" k; as he had gathered them out of all places where they had been scattered, on their return from the Babylonish captivity; so will he again gather them from all the nations of the earth, east, west, north, and south, where they are now dispersed; when they shall turn to the Lord, and seek David their King, the true Messiah. Maimonides l understands this passage of their present captivity, and deliverance from it by the Messiah.

k ושב וקבצך και παλιν συναξει, Sept. "et rursum congregabit te", V. L. "et iterum colliget te", Piscator. l Hilchot Melachim, c. 11. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rejection of Israel and the desolation of the promised inheritance were not to be the end of God’s dispensations. The closing words of the address therefore are words of comfort and promise. Compare marginal reference and Deuteronomy 4:29 ff; 1 Kings 8:46-50.

The chastisements of God would lead the nation to repent, and thereupon God would again bless them.

Deuteronomy 30:3

Will turn thy captivity - Will change or put an end to thy state of captivity or distress (compare Psalms 14:7; Psalms 85:2; Jeremiah 30:18). The rendering of the Greek version is significant; “the Lord will heal thy sins.”

The promises of this and the following verses had no doubt their partial fulfillment in the days of the Judges; but the fact that various important features are repeated in Jeremiah 32:37 ff, and in Ezekiel 11:19 ff, Ezekiel 34:13 ff, Ezekiel 36:24 ff, shows us that none of these was regarded as exhausting the promises. In full analogy with the scheme of prophecy we may add that the return from the Babylonian captivity has not exhausted their depth. The New Testament takes up the strain (e. g. in Romans 11:0), and foretells the restoration of Israel to the covenanted mercies of God. True these mercies shall not be, as before, confined to that nation. The “turning again of the captivity” will be when Israel is converted to Him in whom the Law was fulfilled, and who died “not for that nation only,” but also that he might “gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad” John 11:51-52. Then shall there be “one fold and one shepherd” John 10:16. But whether the general conversion of the Jews shall be accompanied with any national restoration, any recovery of their ancient prerogatives as the chosen people; and further, whether there shall be any local replacement of them in the land of their fathers, may be regarded as of “the secret things” which belong unto God Deuteronomy 29:29; and so indeed our Lord Himself teaches us Acts 1:6-7.

Deuteronomy 30:6

Circumcise thine heart - Compare Deuteronomy 10:16 note; Jeremiah 32:39; Ezra 11:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 30:3. Gather thee from all the nations — This must refer to a more extensive captivity than that which they suffered in Babylon.