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 concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Lam 3:25–26Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
• Prov 16:20He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.
• Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
• Isa 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• Ps 34:8Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
• Ps 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
• 2 Pet 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
• Isa 55:8“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
• Luke 15:20“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
• Ps 28:6–7Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
• Ps 40:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned 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 in the earth.”
• Isa 33:5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
• Jer 17:7“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
• Ps 62:5–8My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.
• Rom 9:22What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,
• Acts 2:33–39Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
• Ps 62:1–2For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
• Rom 8:25–28But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
• Matt 15:22–28Behold, a Canaanite woman came out from those borders, and cried, saying, “Have mercy on me, Lord, you son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!”
• Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Eph 1:20–23which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
• Ps 76:5–10Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
• 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
• Isa 33:10–12“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
• Luke 2:25Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
• Mal 2:17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
• Luke 24:26–27Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
• Acts 5:31God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
• Eph 1:8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
• Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Isa 26:7–8The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
• Mic 7:18–20Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
• Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
• Exod 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
• Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• Isa 18:4For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

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