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 slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Lam 3:25–26The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
• Prov 16:20He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
• Isa 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
• Isa 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Ps 34:8O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
• Ps 27:14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
• 2 Pet 3:15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
• Isa 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
• Luke 15:20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• Ps 28:6–7Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
• Ps 40:1–3I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
• Ps 46:10–11Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
• Isa 33:5The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
• Jer 17:7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
• Ps 62:5–8My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• Acts 2:33–39Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
• Ps 62:1–2Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
• Rom 8:25–28But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
• Matt 15:22–28And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
• Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
• Eph 1:20–23Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
• Ps 76:5–10The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
• 1 Sam 2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
• Isa 33:10–12Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
• Luke 2:25And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
• Mal 2:17Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
• Luke 24:26–27Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
• Acts 5:31Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
• Eph 1:8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
• Rom 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• Isa 26:7–8The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
• Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
• Exod 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
• Isa 5:16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
• Eph 1:6To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• Isa 18:4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

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