Isaiah 56:8
Good News Translation
The Sovereign LORD, who has brought his people Israel home from exile, has promised that he will bring still other people to join them.

New Revised Standard Version
Thus says the Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD, promise to bring together my people who were taken away, and let them join the others.

New American Bible
Oracle of the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel— Others will I gather to them besides those already gathered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.

which

Isaiah 11:11,12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea. . . .

Isaiah 27:12,13 And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel. . . .

Isaiah 54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee.

Psalm 106:47 Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among the nations: That we may give thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.

Psalm 107:2,3 Let them say so that have been redeemed by the Lord, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy: and gathered out of the countries. . . .

Psalm 147:2 The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

Jeremiah 30:17 For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the islands that are afar off, and say: He that scattered Israel will gather him: and he will keep him as the shepherd doth his flock.

Hosea 1:11 And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel, shall be gathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall come up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.

Micah 4:6 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god: but we will walk in the name of the Lord, our God, for ever and ever.

Zephaniah 3:18-20 The triflers that were departed from the law, I will gather together, because they were of thee: that thou mayest no more suffer reproach for them. . . .

Zechariah 10:8-10 I will whistle for them, and I will gather them together, because I have redeemed them: and I will multiply them as they were multiplied before. . . .

yet

Isaiah 43:6 I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 49:12,22 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country. . . .

Isaiah 60:3-11 And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising. . . .

Isaiah 66:18-21 But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory. . . .

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.

John 10:16 And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

John 11:52 And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God that were dispersed.

Ephesians 1:10 In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

Ephesians 2:14-16 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and breaking down the middle wall of partition, the enmities in his flesh: . . .

beside those that are gathered.

Context
Salvation for Foreigners
7I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations. 8The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.
Cross References
John 7:35
The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles and teach the Gentiles?

John 10:16
And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

Psalm 107:3
From the rising and from the setting of the sun, from the north and from the sea.

Psalm 147:2
The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

Isaiah 11:12
And he shall set up a standard unto the nations, and shall assemble the fugitives of Israel, and shall gather together the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth.

Isaiah 27:12
And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.

Isaiah 60:3
And the Gentiles shall walk in thy light, and kings in the brightness of thy rising.

Isaiah 66:18
But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will close up thy scar, and will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord. Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

Ezekiel 34:12
As the shepherd visiteth his flock in the day when he shall be in the midst of his sheep that were scattered, so will I visit my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Isaiah 56:7
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