Isaiah 64:5

God meets those who gladly do righteousness, but the people confess they have long sinned and ask whether they can be saved. It matters because it honestly faces the tension between God's holiness and human sin.

Cross-references · 20

• Heb 4:16Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
• Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
• Phil 3:13–15Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
• Ps 112:1Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
• Exod 29:42–43It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
• Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
• Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Ps 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
• Ps 37:4Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
• Isa 56:1–7Yahweh says, “Maintain justice, and do what is right; for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
• Acts 10:2–4a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
• Isa 26:8–9Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
• Hos 11:8“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
• Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
• Exod 25:22There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
• Exod 30:6You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
• Exod 20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
• Ps 90:7–9For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
• Mal 3:6“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

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