Isaiah 45:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Heavens, sprinkle from above, and let the skies shower righteousness. Let the earth open up so that salvation will sprout and righteousness will spring up with it. I, the Lord, have created it.

Cross References

Hosea 10:12

Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unploughed ground. It is time to seek the  Lord until he comes  and sends righteousness on you like the rain.

Isaiah 61:11

For as the earth produces its growth, and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit  on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring.

Joel 3:18

In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the  Lord’s house, watering the Valley of Acacias.  ,

Isaiah 32:15

until the Spirit  from on high is poured out on us. Then the desert will become an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

Isaiah 11:1

Then a shoot will grow from the stump of Jesse, and a branch  from his roots will bear fruit.

Isaiah 4:2

On that day the Branch  of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious,  and the fruit of the land  will be the pride and glory  of Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 60:21

All your people will be righteous; they will possess the land for ever; they are the branch I planted, the work of my   hands, so that I may be glorified.

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up before him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at him, no appearance that we should desire him.

Ephesians 4:24

and to put on  , the new self, the one created  according to God’s likeness  in righteousness and purity of the truth.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created  in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance  for us to do.

Acts 2:33

Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God  and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit,  he has poured out  what you both see and hear.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the area around my hill  a blessing: I will send down showers in their season;  they will be showers of blessing.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you turn here and there, faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land   – a female  will shelter  a man.

Isaiah 66:22

‘For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will remain before me’ – this is the  Lord’s declaration – ‘so your offspring and your name will remain.

Isaiah 61:3

to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the  Lord to glorify him.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had paid attention to my commands. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

2 Kings 19:25

Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer  who formed you from the womb,  says: I am the Lord, who made everything; who stretched out the heavens by myself; who alone spread out the earth;

Isaiah 46:13

I am bringing my justice near; it is not far away, and my salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, my splendour in Israel.