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Future Glory for Zion

Isaiah 60:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
KJV
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
WEB
“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
ASV
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
LSV
Who [are] these—they fly as a thick cloud, || And as doves to their windows?
YLT
Who [are] these — as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?
DBY
Who are these that come flying as a cloud, and as doves to their dove-cotes?
DRC
Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?
GNV
Who are these that flee like a cloude, and as the doues to their windowes?
JPS
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their cotes?
LXXE
Who are these that fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to me?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
מִי־אֵ֖לֶּה כָּעָ֣ב תְּעוּפֶ֑ינָה וְכַיּוֹנִ֖ים אֶל־אֲרֻבֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃
LXX-Br
Τίνες οἵδε, ὡς νεφέλαι πέτονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ περιστεραὶ σὺν νοσσοῖς ἐπʼ ἐμέ;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 7:9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in…
  • Luke 13:29People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God.
  • Isaiah 60:4Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
  • Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
  • Isaiah 49:21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
  • Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
  • Genesis 8:8–11Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the…

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