Isaiah 8:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And I will wait for the Lord, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for and hope in Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I will wait for the LORD, who has hidden his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And I will wait for the Lord, who has concealed his face from the house of Jacob, and I will stand before him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And I will wait for the Lord who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob: and I will look for him.

Isaiah 8:17 Cross References

Genesis 49:18

I wait for your salvation, O Lord.

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

Job 35:14

How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

Psalm 130:5

I wait for the Lord; my soul waits, and in his word I hope;

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Psalm 33:20

Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and shield.

Psalm 37:34

Wait for the Lord and keep to his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on the destruction of the wicked.

Psalm 39:7

“And now, O Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Psalm 40:1

I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 25:9

It will be said on that day, “See, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save us. This is the Lord for whom we have waited; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

Isaiah 26:8

In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we have placed hope; your name and your renown are the soul’s desire.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 33:2

O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.

Isaiah 45:15

Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?

Isaiah 54:8

In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.

Isaiah 57:17

Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry; I struck them; I hid and was angry, but they kept turning back to their own ways.

Isaiah 59:2

Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Isaiah 64:4

From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him.

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one who calls on your name or attempts to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Jeremiah 33:5

They are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of those whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.

Hosea 12:6

But as for you, return to your God; hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Habakkuk 2:3

For there is still a vision for the appointed time; it speaks of the end and does not lie. If it seems to tarry, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

Luke 2:38

At that moment she came and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.

Deuteronomy 32:20

He said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

1 Thessalonians 1:10

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Hebrews 2:13

And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Here am I and the children whom God has given me.”

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.