Isaiah 30:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

Cross References

Job 35:14

How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

Psalm 2:12

For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

Psalm 27:14

Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

Psalm 34:8

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Psalm 84:12

O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

Psalm 99:4

The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

Exodus 34:6

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Proverbs 16:20

He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

Isaiah 18:4

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

Isaiah 2:11

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

Isaiah 2:17

And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

Isaiah 25:9

And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

Isaiah 33:2

O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

Isaiah 33:5

The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

Isaiah 40:31

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

Isaiah 42:14

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Isaiah 48:9

Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

Isaiah 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

Isaiah 61:8

For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.

Isaiah 64:4

The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.

Isaiah 8:17

And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

Jeremiah 17:7

A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

Jeremiah 42:7

And it came about that after ten days the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

Daniel 12:12

A blessing will be on the man who goes on waiting, and comes to the thousand, three hundred and thirty-five days.

Hosea 1:7

But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.

Hosea 2:14

For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

Hosea 5:15

I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

Malachi 2:17

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

Luke 15:20

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

Luke 2:25

And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Acts 5:31

Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.

Romans 5:20

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

Romans 9:22

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

Ephesians 1:8

Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;

Deuteronomy 32:4

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

James 5:11

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

2 Peter 3:15

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

1 Samuel 2:3

Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.