Deuteronomy 30:4

4 Even if he has driven you to the far end of heaven, the LORD your God will gather you up from there; he will take you back from there.

Deuteronomy 30:4 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 30:4

If [any] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts] of
heaven
As many of them are in this remote island of ours, Great Britain, reckoned formerly the uttermost part of the earth, as Thule, supposed to be Schetland, an isle belonging to Scotland, is said to be {m}; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 28:49); and as some of them are thought to be in America, which Manasseh Ben Israel ^F14 had a firm belief of:

from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee;
whose eye is omniscient, and reaches every part of the world; and whose arm is omnipotent, and none can stay it, or turn it back. The Targum of Jonathan is,

``from thence will he bring you near by the hands of the King Messiah.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 "Ultima Thule", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 30. Seneca Medea, Act 2. in fine.
F14 Spes Israelis, sect. 38.

Deuteronomy 30:4 In-Context

2 and you must return to the LORD your God, obeying his voice, in line with all that I'm commanding you right now—you and your children—with all your mind and with all your being.

3 Then the LORD your God will restore you as you were before and will have compassion on you, gathering you up from all the peoples where the LORD your God scattered you.

4 Even if he has driven you to the far end of heaven, the LORD your God will gather you up from there; he will take you back from there.

5 The LORD your God will bring you home to the land that your ancestors possessed; you will possess it again. And he will do good things for you and multiply you—making you more numerous even than your ancestors!

6 Then the LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants so that you love the LORD your God with all your mind and with all your being in order that you may live.