98 Verses about the Promise of Restoration

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he does not retain his anger for ever, because he delights in mercy.He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and you will throw all their sins down into the depths of the sea.

Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near:Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures for ever: and of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return, as at the first, says the LORD.

Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

And even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.

And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that heals you.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.

For which reason we do not faint; but though our outward man is perishing, yet the inner man is being renewed day by day.

To appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellence of our God.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.

Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy on his afflicted.

The thief does not come, except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

For, lo, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

He gives power to the faint; and to those who have no might he increases strength.

In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her who limps, and I will gather her who is driven out, and her whom I have afflicted;And I will make her who limped a remnant, and her who was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from this time forwards, even for ever.

For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has revived me.

Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.

Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause the desolate inheritances to be inhabited;

As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a shield to all those who trust in him.

And he who sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

​God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary: he wakens me morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as the learned.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are bruised,

You, who have shown me great and evil troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

For thus says the LORD; As I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

Come unto me, all you who labor and bear heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.

Cast your burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions never fail.They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.

Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the young locust, and the caterpiller, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will restore double to you;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.

And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

But those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Bring us back, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

For I have satisfied the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.

And those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places: you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

For your shame you shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double: everlasting joy shall be theirs.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation; and uphold me with your free spirit.

If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and again comfort him and his mourners.

But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring up; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

For, behold, in those days, and at that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.

Casting all your cares on him; for he cares for you.

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.

Will you not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in you?

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return to me; for I have redeemed you.

Turn us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Moreover 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 binds up the broken place of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will rest in his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD who has mercy on you.

Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

And I will bring back the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Fear not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

You have turned for me my mourning into singing: you have put off my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness;

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

You, who have shown me great and evil troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back to give them a place; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.

Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto you; for you are the LORD our God.