Isaiah 66:5

God comforts those who tremble at his word and are mocked by their own brothers, promising that the scoffers will be put to shame. It matters because it assures the faithful that God vindicates them.

Cross-references · 23

• John 15:18–20If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Ps 38:20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
• 1 Jn 3:13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
• John 9:34They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.
• Luke 6:22–23Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
• Isa 5:19Who say, “Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”
• Jer 36:16Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”
• Song 1:6Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
• Luke 13:17As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
• Prov 13:13Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
• Acts 26:9–10“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Jer 36:23–25When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
• 1 Pet 4:12–14Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
• Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
• Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
• 2 Th 1:6–10Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• Acts 2:33–47Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
• Isa 60:15“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

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