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Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
Isaiah 26:8 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
  • KJV Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
  • NKJV Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O Lord, we have waited for You; The desire of our soul is for Your name And for the remembrance of You.
  • NASB Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, Lord, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, and remembering You, is the desire of our souls.
  • NLT Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws; our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.

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Quick answer

Walking in God's ways, His people wait for Him, longing for His name and renown. Their deepest desire is for God Himself.

Overview

Even amid His judgments, the faithful wait on the Lord and yearn for His name. Their souls desire His honor above all. The verse models the believer's patient, God-centered longing that finds its rest only in knowing and glorifying God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 31

  • Ps 37:3–7Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
  • Jas 5:7–11Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
  • Isa 33:2O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
  • Exod 3:15God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
  • Ps 65:6You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
  • 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
  • Rom 8:25But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
  • Acts 1:4And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.
  • 2 Sam 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
  • Job 23:10–12Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
  • Song 1:2–4Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.
  • Ps 73:25Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
  • Ps 18:23And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
  • Ps 77:10–12So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
  • Song 5:8O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
  • Ps 106:3Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.
  • Num 36:13These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  • Ps 63:1–3A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
  • Ps 44:17–18All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
  • Ps 84:2My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
  • Isa 25:9And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
  • Song 2:3–5Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
  • Isa 56:1This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
  • Isa 12:4and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.
  • Ps 143:5–6I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.
  • Isa 64:4–5From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
  • Isa 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
  • Mal 4:4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
  • Ps 13:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
  • Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
  • Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 26:8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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