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The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 58:11 · New King James Version
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  • WEB and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
  • KJV And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
  • BSB The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
  • NASB “And the Lord will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
  • NLT The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring.

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Quick answer

God will continually guide, satisfy, and strengthen the obedient, making them like a well-watered garden and unfailing spring. Faithful devotion yields enduring spiritual flourishing.

Overview

The Lord pledges constant guidance and provision even in dry places, picturing His people as a watered garden and a spring whose waters never fail. This abundant life flows from a heart turned toward justice and mercy. The imagery of living, unfailing water anticipates Christ's promise of the Spirit as rivers of living water within the believer (John 7:38).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 26

  • John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • Jer 31:12They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
  • Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
  • Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
  • John 16:13However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
  • Ps 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
  • Prov 11:25The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.
  • Song 4:15a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
  • Prov 3:8It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
  • Jer 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
  • Ps 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
  • Prov 28:25One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.
  • Ezek 36:35They shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
  • Hos 13:5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
  • Ps 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
  • Ps 92:14They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
  • Ps 34:9–10Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
  • Ps 33:19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
  • Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
  • Ps 37:19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
  • Job 5:20In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
  • 1 Th 3:11Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you;
  • Isa 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
  • Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
  • Prov 13:4The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
  • Job 6:15–20My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 58:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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