Isaiah 66:18
Good News Translation
I know their thoughts and their deeds. I am coming to gather the people of all the nations. When they come together, they will see what my power can do

New Revised Standard Version
For I know their works and their thoughts, and I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory,

Contemporary English Version
I know everything you do and think! The time has now come to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory

New American Bible
I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; they shall come and see my glory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

I know

Isaiah 37:28 I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

Deuteronomy 31:21 And after many evils and afflictions shall have come upon them, this canticle shall answer them for a testimony, which no oblivion shall take away out of the mouth of their seed. For I know their thoughts, and what they are about to do this day, before that I bring them into the land which I have promised them.

Amos 5:12 Because I know your manifold crimes, and your grievous sins: enemies of the just, taking bribes, and oppressing the poor in the gate.

John 5:42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.

Revelation 2:2,9,13 I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars: . . .

their thoughts

Job 42:2 I know that thou canst do all things, and no thought is hid from thee.

Ezekiel 38:10 Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design.

Matthew 9:4 And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Luke 5:22 And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?

1 Corinthians 3:20 And again: The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

that I

Isaiah 2:2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

Psalm 67:2 That we may know thy way upon earth: thy salvation in all nations.

Psalm 72:11,17 And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him. . . .

Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations.

Psalm 86:9 All the nations thou hast made shall come and adore before thee, O Lord: and they shall glorify thy name.

Joel 3:2 I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.

Romans 15:8-12 For I say that Christ Jesus was minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: . . .

Romans 16:26 (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

and see

Isaiah 65:10 And the plains shall be turned to folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

Ezekiel 39:21 And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

John 17:24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. . . .

Context
God's Final Judgments Against the Wicked
17They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. 18But 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.19And I will set a sign among them, and I will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the islands afar off, to them that have not heard of me, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory to the Gentiles:…
Cross References
Psalm 97:6
The heavens declared his justice: and all people saw his glory.

Psalm 139:2
Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up.

Isaiah 11:9
They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.

Isaiah 45:22
Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.

Isaiah 52:10
The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 56:8
The Lord God, who gathereth the scattered of Israel, saith: I will still gather unto him his congregation.

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

Jeremiah 3:17
At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.

Joel 3:2
I will gather together all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.

Zechariah 14:16
And all they that shall be left of all nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year, to adore the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles, and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to my name a clean oblation: for my name is great among the Gentiles, saith the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 66:17
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