Isaiah 45:8

God calls the heavens and earth to bring forth righteousness and salvation, picturing redemption as a gift descending from above.

Cross-references · 24

• Hos 10:12Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
• Isa 61:11For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
• Ps 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
• 1 Cor 3:6–9I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
• Titus 3:3–6For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Isa 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
• Joel 3:18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
• Isa 11:1Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
• Isa 4:2On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
• Ps 85:9–12Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
• Isa 32:15until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
• Isa 53:2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
• Isa 60:21Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
• Ps 72:3May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills bring righteousness.
• Isa 65:17–18For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
• Joel 2:28–29And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
• Hos 14:5–8I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
• Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
• Jer 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
• Isa 66:22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
• Eph 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
• Acts 2:33Exalted, 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.
• Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
• Ezek 34:26I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.

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