Isaiah 30:16-26

16 You said, ‘No, we will flee on horses.’ Therefore you will flee! You said, ‘We will ride off on swift horses.’ Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.”
18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
19 People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you.
20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
22 Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”
23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.
25 In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill.
26 The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.

Cross References 35

  • 1. Jeremiah 46:6
  • 2. S Deuteronomy 17:16; 1 Kings 10:28-29; S Psalms 20:7; Isaiah 31:1,3; Isaiah 36:8
  • 3. S Leviticus 26:8; Joshua 23:10
  • 4. Leviticus 26:36; Deuteronomy 28:25; S 2 Kings 7:7
  • 5. S Isaiah 1:8
  • 6. S Psalms 20:5
  • 7. S Genesis 43:31; Isaiah 42:14; 2 Peter 3:9,15
  • 8. Psalms 78:38; Isaiah 48:9; John 3:10
  • 9. S Psalms 11:7; S Isaiah 5:16
  • 10. S Psalms 27:14; Isaiah 25:9; Isaiah 33:2; Isaiah 40:31; Isaiah 64:4; Lamentations 3:25; Daniel 12:12
  • 11. S Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 60:20; Isaiah 61:3
  • 12. S Job 24:12
  • 13. Job 22:27; Psalms 50:15; S Psalms 86:7; Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 65:24; Zechariah 13:9; Matthew 7:7-11
  • 14. 1 Kings 22:27
  • 15. S Isaiah 28:9
  • 16. Psalms 74:9; Amos 8:11
  • 17. S Isaiah 29:24
  • 18. S ver 11; S Job 33:11
  • 19. S Exodus 32:4; S Isaiah 17:8
  • 20. S Job 22:24; Isaiah 31:7
  • 21. Leviticus 15:19-23
  • 22. Ezekiel 7:19-20
  • 23. S Deuteronomy 28:12; Isaiah 65:21-22
  • 24. Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 55:2; Jeremiah 31:14
  • 25. S Job 36:31; Isaiah 62:8
  • 26. S Isaiah 28:5
  • 27. S Psalms 65:13
  • 28. Isaiah 32:14,20
  • 29. S Job 6:5
  • 30. Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17
  • 31. S Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 34:6; Isaiah 65:12; Jeremiah 25:32; Jeremiah 50:27
  • 32. S Isaiah 2:15
  • 33. S Exodus 17:6; Isaiah 32:2; Isaiah 41:18; Joel 3:18; Zechariah 14:8
  • 34. Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 60:19-20; Zechariah 14:7; Revelation 21:23; Revelation 22:5
  • 35. S Deuteronomy 32:39; S 2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 107:20; S Isaiah 1:5; Jeremiah 3:22; Jeremiah 17:14; Hosea 14:4
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