Isaiah 45:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Let justice descend, you heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the clouds drop it down. Let the earth open and salvation bud forth; let righteousness spring up with them! I, the Lord, have created this.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

“Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins,

Psalm 68:8

God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah

Psalm 72:3

That the mountains may yield their bounty for the people, and the hills great abundance,

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain coming down upon the fields, like showers watering the earth,

Isaiah 11:1

But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom.

Isaiah 32:15

Until the spirit from on high is poured out on us. And the wilderness becomes a garden land and the garden land seems as common as forest.

Isaiah 4:2

On that day, The branch of the Lord will be beauty and glory, and the fruit of the land will be honor and splendor for the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, I spread out the earth by myself.

Isaiah 44:3

I will pour out water upon the thirsty ground, streams upon the dry land; I will pour out my spirit upon your offspring, my blessing upon your descendants.

Isaiah 46:13

I am bringing on that victory, it is not far off, my salvation shall not tarry; I will put salvation within Zion, give to Israel my glory.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you would attend to my commandments, your peace would be like a river, your vindication like the waves of the sea,

Isaiah 53:2

He grew up like a sapling before him, like a shoot from the parched earth; He had no majestic bearing to catch our eye, no beauty to draw us to him.

Isaiah 60:21

Your people will all be just; for all time they will possess the land; They are the shoot that I planted, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.

Isaiah 61:11

As the earth brings forth its shoots, and a garden makes its seeds spring up, So will the Lord God make justice spring up, and praise before all the nations.

Isaiah 61:3

to place on those who mourn in Zion a diadem instead of ashes, To give them oil of gladness instead of mourning, a glorious mantle instead of a faint spirit. They will be called oaks of justice, the planting of the Lord to show his glory.

Isaiah 66:22

Just as the new heavens and the new earth which I am making Shall endure before me—oracle of the Lord— so shall your descendants and your name endure.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you continue to hesitate, rebellious daughter? The Lord has created a new thing upon the earth: woman encompasses man.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will settle them around my hill and send rain in its season, the blessing of abundant rain.

Hosea 10:12

“Sow for yourselves justice, reap the reward of loyalty; Break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he comes and rains justice upon you.”

Acts 2:33

Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the holy Spirit from the Father and poured it forth, as you [both] see and hear.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them. One in Christ.

Ephesians 4:24

and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth. Rules for the New Life.