Isaiah 66:19-21

Contemporary English Version

¹⁹by proving what I can do.^[a] I will send the survivors to Tarshish, Pul,^[b] Lud, Meshech,^[c] Tubal, Javan,^[d] and to the distant islands. I will send them to announce my wonderful glory to nations that have never heard about me.

²⁰They will bring your relatives from the nations as an offering to me, the Lord. They will come to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, on horses, chariots, wagons, mules, and camels.^[e] It will be like the people of Israel bringing the right offering to my temple. ²¹I promise that some of them will be priests and others will be helpers in my temple. I, the Lord, have spoken.

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Footnotes

66.19 by … do: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
66.19 Pul: Hebrew; one ancient translation “Put,” a country in Africa, but neither the location of Pul or Put is known for certain.
66.19 Meshech: One ancient translation; Hebrew “those who use bows and arrows.”
66.19 Tarshish … Javan: Tarshish may have been a Phoenician city in Spain; Put (see note on Pul) and Lud were African people; Meshech and Tubal were regions south or southeast of the Black Sea; the Javan were people of Asia Minor and the Greek islands.
66.20 camels: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.