Romans 9:28
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Romans 9:28 in other translations
| BSB | For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.” |
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| WEB | for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.” |
| ASV | for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. |
| YLT | for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land. |
| DARBY | for he is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting [it short in righteousness; because] a cutting short of the matter will the Lord accomplish upon the earth. |
| BBE | For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short. |
| Webster | For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. |
What does Romans 9:28 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Romans 9:27-29
27-29. Esaias also crieth--"But Isaiah crieth"--an expression denoting a solemn testimony openly borne (Joh 1:15; 7:28, 37; 12:44; Ac 23:6; 24:21). concerning Israel, Though the number of the children--"sons" of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a--"the" remnant--that is, the elect remnant only shall be saved.
Barnes' Notes
Cut it short. This word here means to execute it speedily. The destruction shall not be delayed.
In righteousness. So as to manifest his own justice. The work, though apparently severe, yet shall be a just expression of God's abhorrence of the sins of the people.
Because a short work. The word here rendered "short" means, properly, that which is determined on or decreed. This is the sense of the Hebrew; and the phrase here denotes the purpose which was determined on in relation to the Jews.
Upon the earth. Upon the land of Israel. Mt 5:5; Mt 4:8. The design for which the apostle introduces this passage is to show that God of old destroyed many of the Jews for their sin; and that, therefore, the doctrine of the apostle was no new thing, that the Jews might be excluded from the peculiar privileges of the children of God.
(1) "the work" or, "the account" (a) "because a short work" Isa 28:22
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 9:25-29
The rejecting of the Jews, and the taking in the Gentiles, were foretold in the Old Testament. It tends very much to the clearing of a truth, to observe how the Scripture is fulfilled in it. It is a wonder of Divine power and mercy that there are any saved: for even those left to be a seed, if God had dealt with them according to their sins, had perished with the rest. This great truth this Scripture teaches us…
Romans 9:28 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 9:28
- Isaiah 10:23
For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
- Acts 17:31
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
- Psalms 9:8
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- Revelation 19:11
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
- Isaiah 30:12-14
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
- Isaiah 5:16
But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
- Daniel 9:26-27
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
- Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
- Matthew 24:21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
- Psalms 65:5
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
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Context
- Romans 9:27
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
- Romans 9:28
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
- Romans 9:29
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
Romans 9:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque palabra consumadora y abreviadora en justicia, porque palabra abreviada, hará el Señor sobre la tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car il consomme et abrège l’affaire en justice, parce que le ✶Seigneur fera une affaire abrégée sur la terre ». |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn er vollendet die Sache und kürzt sie ab in Gerechtigkeit, denn der Herr wird eine abgekürzte Sache tun auf Erden." |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Verbum enim consummans, et abbrevians in æquitate: quia verbum breviatum faciet Dominus super terram: |