Romans 9:28
vFor he will finish 7the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
NKJV: For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”
ESV: for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”
λόγον γὰρ συντελῶν καὶ συντέμνων ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ· ὅτι λόγον συντετμημένον ποιήσει Κύριος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
Textual key: ‘in righteousness: because a short work’ is omitted, and many versions rearrange what parts of the verse remain.
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Isaiah 28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Jeremiah 16:16 ¶Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Isaiah 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Isaiah 30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
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Or, the account.