For I have given rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing.”
Parallel translations
- WEB For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul I have replenished.”
- KJV For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
- BSB for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”
- NKJV For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
- NASB For I give plenty of water to the weary ones, and refresh everyone who languishes.”
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Quick answer
God promises to satisfy the weary and replenish every sorrowful soul. He brings rest and refreshment to the exhausted.
Overview
This closing word assures that God Himself meets the deepest needs of the tired and grieving. His restoration is not merely outward but reaches the soul with satisfaction and renewal. It anticipates the rest Christ offers to all who are weary and burdened (Matthew 11:28).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Matt 5:6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
- Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
- 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.”
- Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
- Jer 31:14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Isa 32:2A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
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