Isaiah 58:8

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Cross-references · 20

• Isa 52:12For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
• Jer 33:6‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
• Ps 37:6he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
• Jer 30:17For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
• Ps 85:13Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Isa 58:10–11and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
• Ps 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
• Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Exod 14:19The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
• Job 11:17Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.
• Isa 57:18I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
• Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
• Hos 6:2–3After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
• 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.
• Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
• Matt 13:15for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’
• Acts 10:4He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.
• Acts 10:31and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

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