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Isaiah 66:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
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Role in This Section
The universalizing poetic vision supplies a stated reason through “For I know their works and their thoughts” at Isaiah 66:18 in “Fire, Gathered Nations, New Creation, Worship, and Corpses Close the Book.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 66:15–24
Read Isaiah 66:18 with 66:15–24. By itself, “For I know their works and their thoughts” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Fiery judgment on corrupt worship leads to gathered peoples seeing glory, messengers and returnees arriving by many conveyances, some outsiders serving, enduring new creation and worship, and a final view of rebels' corpses.
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Read Isaiah 66:15–24 — Fire, Gathered Nations, New Creation, Worship, and Corpses Close the BookSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 66:15–24, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 66:15–24 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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