Ezra 9:8

Modern King James Version

And now for a little time grace has been shown from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape and to give us a nail in His holy place, so that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little life in our bondage.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:4

It may be Jehovah your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer with which his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the rest who are left.

Ezra 9:9

For we were slaves, yet our God has not left us in our bondage, but has given mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us some life, to set up the house of our God, and to repair its waste, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Jehovah, I pray You, let now Your ear be open to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name. And I pray You, bless Your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. (For I was the king's cupbearer.)

Nehemiah 9:31

But for Your great mercies, You did not completely destroy them nor forsake them. For You are a gracious and merciful God.

Job 33:30

to bring back his soul from the Pit, to be lighted with the light of the living.

Psalm 13:3

Look! Answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Psalm 13:4

lest my enemy say, I have overcome him, and my foes rejoice when I am shaken.

Psalm 138:7

If I walk in the midst of trouble, You will give me life; You shall stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand shall save me.

Psalm 34:5

They looked to Him, and were filled with light; and their faces were not ashamed.

Psalm 85:6

Will You not give us life again, so that Your people may rejoice in You?

Proverbs 29:13

The poor and the deceitful man meet together; Jehovah gives light to the eyes of both.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads; yes, their collected words are like nails driven home; they are given from one Shepherd.

Isaiah 1:9

Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:3

And it shall be in the day that Jehovah shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage which was pressed on you,

Isaiah 56:5

even to them will I give within My house and within My walls a hand and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 57:15

For so says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity; whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, even with the contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 6:13

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return and be consumed like the terebinth and like the oak being felled, yet has its stump; the holy seed is its stump.

Jeremiah 42:2

And they said to Jeremiah the prophet, Please let our cry be pleasing to you, and pray for us to Jehovah your God, even for all this remnant, (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes behold us),

Jeremiah 44:14

So that none of the remnant of Judah who has gone into the land of Egypt to live there shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah to which they have a desire to return to live there. For none shall return except those who escape.

Ezekiel 14:22

Yet, behold, there shall be left a remnant in it that shall be brought out, sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come out to you, and you shall see their way and their doings. And you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I brought on Jerusalem, for all that I have brought on it.

Hosea 6:2

After two days He will bring us to life; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.

Habakkuk 3:2

O Jehovah, I have heard Your report; I am afraid. O Jehovah, give new life to Your work in the midst of years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

Zephaniah 3:12

I will also leave in your midst a poor and weak people, and they shall trust in the name of Jehovah.

Zechariah 10:4

Out of Him came the cornerstone; out of Him the nail; out of Him the battle bow; out of Him every oppressor together.

Zechariah 8:12

For the seed shall be blessed; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Zechariah 8:6

So says Jehovah of Hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it also be marvelous in My eyes, says Jehovah of Hosts?

Romans 9:27

Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, "Though the number of the sons of Israel is as the sands of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Revelation 3:12

Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven from My God, and My new name.

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan did not hear when his father made the people swear. And he put forth the end of the rod in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth. And his eyes were lightened.

1 Samuel 14:29

Then Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. Please see how my eyes have been lightened because I tasted a little of this honey.