Isaiah 30:18

Yet the LORD waits to be gracious and rises to show mercy, for He is a God of justice; blessed are those who wait for Him. It matters because judgment is not God's final word—grace is.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
• Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
• Prov 16:20Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
• 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.”
• Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
• Ps 34:8Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
• Ps 27:14Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!
• 2 Pet 3:15Consider also that our Lord’s patience brings salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom God gave him.
• Isa 55:8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
• Luke 15:20So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.
• Ps 28:6–7Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.
• Ps 40:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
• Ps 46:10–11“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
• Isa 33:5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
• Jer 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
• Ps 62:5–8Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
• Rom 9:22What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
• Acts 2:33–39Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
• Ps 62:1–2For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.
• Rom 8:25–28But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
• Matt 15:22–28And a Canaanite woman from that region came to Him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.”
• Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
• Jas 5:11See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Eph 1:20–23which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
• Ps 76:5–10The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
• 1 Sam 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
• Isa 33:10–12“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
• Luke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
• Mal 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
• Luke 24:26–27Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”
• Acts 5:31God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
• Eph 1:8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
• Rom 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Isa 26:7–8The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
• Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
• Exod 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Isa 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
• Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• Isa 18:4For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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