Isaiah 49:8-12

Restoration of Israel

8 This is what the LORD says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9 to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up.
12 See, they will come from afar— some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan.[a]

Cross References 18

  • 1. Psalms 69:13; Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 61:2
  • 2. S Isaiah 41:10; 2 Corinthians 6:2*
  • 3. S Isaiah 5:2; Isaiah 26:3
  • 4. S Isaiah 42:6
  • 5. Leviticus 25:10; S Psalms 37:9; Isaiah 44:26; Isaiah 58:12; Isaiah 61:4; Ezekiel 36:10,33; Amos 9:11,14
  • 6. S Numbers 34:13; S Isaiah 60:21
  • 7. Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 61:1; S Luke 4:19
  • 8. S Psalms 107:10
  • 9. Isaiah 41:18
  • 10. S Isaiah 33:16
  • 11. Psalms 121:6; Revelation 7:16
  • 12. S Isaiah 14:1
  • 13. S Psalms 48:14; S Isaiah 42:16; S Isaiah 48:17
  • 14. S Isaiah 33:21; S Isaiah 35:7
  • 15. S Isaiah 11:16
  • 16. Isaiah 40:4; Jeremiah 31:9
  • 17. S Isaiah 2:3; S Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 43:5-6
  • 18. Isaiah 59:19; S Matthew 8:11

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text "Sinim"
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