Isaiah 30:15

God offers salvation through returning and rest, strength in quietness and trust—but the people refused. It matters because it reveals both the way of salvation and the tragedy of rejecting it.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 26:3–4You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
• Isa 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
• Jer 3:22–23Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
• Ps 125:1–2A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• John 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
• 1 Chr 5:20They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was answered them, because they put their trust in him.
• 2 Chr 16:8Weren’t the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? Yet, because you relied on Yahweh, he delivered them into your hand.
• Luke 13:34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
• 2 Chr 32:8An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
• Isa 7:4Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
• Isa 30:7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
• Hos 14:1–3Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• Matt 23:37“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
• Matt 22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
• Jer 44:16–17“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
• Isa 30:11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
• Jer 23:36You shall mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.
• Ps 80:11–13It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

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