Isaiah 49:8

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you as a covenant of the people, to restore the earth, to make them inherit the desolate lands,

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.

Psalm 2:8

Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.

Psalm 69:13

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O  Lord, at an acceptable time; O God, in the abundance of Your mercy, answer me in the truth of Your salvation.

Psalm 75:3

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolving; I bear up its pillars.    Selah

Isaiah 26:3

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.

Isaiah 27:3

I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it every moment; lest anyone damage it, I protect it night and day.

Isaiah 41:10

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, yes, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

Isaiah 42:1

Behold My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen one, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:6

I the Lord have called You in righteousness, and will hold Your hand, and will keep You and appoint You for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations,

Isaiah 44:26

who confirms the word of His servant and performs the counsel of His messengers, who says to Jerusalem, “You shall be inhabited,” and to the cities of Judah, “You shall be built.” And I will raise up her ruins again;

Isaiah 49:19

For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

Isaiah 51:16

I have put My words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of My hand that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “You are My people.”

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord shall comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 54:3

For you shall spread out to the right hand and to the left, and your descendants shall inherit the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found, call you upon Him while He is near.

Isaiah 57:13

When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind shall carry them all away, a breath shall take them away. But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land and shall inherit My holy mountain.

Isaiah 58:12

Those from among you shall rebuild 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 in which to Dwell.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn,

Isaiah 61:4

They shall build the old ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Isaiah 65:9

I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of My mountains; and My chosen ones shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there.

Matthew 26:28

For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have listened to you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of the glory of His grace which He graciously bestowed on us in the Beloved.

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant; and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than that of Abel.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of His flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death. He was heard because of His godly fear.

Hebrews 8:6

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, because He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.