Isaiah 58:8

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• Isa 52:12For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
• Jer 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
• Ps 37:6And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
• Jer 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
• Ps 85:13Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
• Mal 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Isa 58:10–11And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
• Ps 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
• Acts 10:35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
• Exod 14:19And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
• Prov 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• Job 11:17And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
• Isa 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
• Hos 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
• Hos 6:2–3After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
• Isa 30:26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
• Ps 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
• Matt 13:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
• Acts 10:4And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
• Acts 10:31And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.

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