Isaiah 57:16

Easy To Read Version

I will not continue fighting forever.\par I will not always be angry.\par If I continued to be angry,\par then man’s spirit\par —the life I gave them—\par would die in front of me.\par

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:16

The angel raised his arm over Jerusalem to destroy it. But the Lord felt very sorry about the bad things that had happened. The Lord said to the angel that destroyed the people, “That’s enough! Put down your arm.”The Lord’s angel was by the threshing floor [161] of Araunah [162] the Jebusite.

Job 12:10

Every animal that lives,\par and every person that breathes,\par is under God’s power.\par

Psalm 85:5

Will you be angry at us forever?\par

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth.\par And when you die,\par your body will go back to the earth.\par But your spirit came from God.\par And when you die,\par your spirit will go back to God.\par

Isaiah 27:8

The Lord will settle his argument with Israel by sending her far away. The Lord will speak harshly to Israel. His words will burn like the hot desert wind.

Isaiah 30:18

The Lord wants to show his mercy to you. The Lord is waiting. The Lord wants to rise and comfort you. The Lord God is fair, and every person that waits for the Lord’s help will be blessed (happy).

Isaiah 42:5

The Lord, the \{true\} God, said these things. (The Lord made the skies. The Lord spread the skies over the earth. He also made everything on the earth. The Lord breathes life into all people on earth. The Lord gives a spirit to every person that walks on the earth.)

Isaiah 64:8

But Lord, you are our father.\par We are like clay.\par And you are the potter. {\cf2\super [464]} \par Your hands made us all.\par

Jeremiah 10:24

Lord, correct us!\par But be fair!\par Don’t punish us in anger!\par

Jeremiah 3:5

You also said,\par ‘God will not always be angry at me.\par God’s anger will not continue forever.’\par

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah secretly swore an oath to Jeremiah. Zedekiah said, “The Lord gives us breath and life. As surely as the Lord lives I will not kill you, Jeremiah. And I promise not to give you to those officials that want to kill you.”

Ezekiel 18:4

I will treat each person just the same. It won’t matter if that person is the parent or the child. The person that sins is the person that will die!

Amos 1:11

The Lord says these things: “I will definitely punish \{the people of\} Edom {\cf2\super [21]} for the many crimes they did. {\cf2\super [22]} Why? Because Edom chased his brother (Israel) with the sword. Edom showed no mercy. Edom’s anger continued forever—he kept tearing and tearing \{at Israel like a wild animal\}.

Micah 7:18

There is no God like you.\par You take away people’s guilt.\par

Zechariah 12:1

The sad message from the Lord about Israel. The Lord made the sky and the earth. He put man’s spirit in him. And the Lord said these things.

Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron bowed to the ground and cried out, “God, you know what people are thinking. [208] Please don’t be angry at all these people. Only one man really sinned.”

Hebrews 12:9

We have all had fathers here on earth who punished us. And we respected our fathers. So it is even more important that we accept punishment from the Father of our spirits. If we do this we will have life.