Isaiah 49:8

In the day of salvation God answers and preserves the Servant, making him a covenant for the people to restore the land and its heritage.

Cross-references · 23

• 2 Cor 6:2For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
• Isa 42:6“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
• Ps 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
• Heb 12:24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
• Isa 61:4They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
• Isa 58:12Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
• Isa 51:16I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
• Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
• Eph 2:12–19remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• Isa 44:26who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
• Eph 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
• John 11:41–42So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• Isa 50:7–9Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
• Isa 49:19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
• Ps 2:8Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
• Isa 42:1“Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.
• Isa 26:3You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
• Isa 54:3For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
• Ps 75:3When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
• Matt 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
• Isa 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
• Heb 8:6Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
• Acts 2:24–32But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

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