And no resident will say, “I am sick”; The people who live there will be forgiven their wrongdoing.
Parallel translations
- WEB The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.
- KJV And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
- BSB And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
- NKJV And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”; The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.
- NLT The people of Israel will no longer say, “We are sick and helpless,” for the Lord will forgive their sins.
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Quick answer
In the restored city no one will be sick, and the people's sins will be forgiven.
Overview
The chapter ends with a promise that joins healing and forgiveness: the inhabitants will not complain of illness, for their iniquity is pardoned. This links sin and its effects, showing that true restoration comes through forgiveness. It points to the gospel, where Christ forgives sin and ultimately removes sickness and sorrow in the new creation (Rev. 21:4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Jer 50:20In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
- Rev 21:4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
- 1 Jn 1:7–9But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- Exod 15:26and he said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
- Jer 33:6–8‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
- Isa 58:8Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you; and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
- Jas 5:14Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
- Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
- Deut 7:15Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, will he put on you, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
- Isa 30:26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
- Mic 7:18–19Who 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.
- 2 Chr 30:20Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
- Rev 22:2in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Deut 28:27Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
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