Isaiah 57:16

New American Bible - revised edition

For I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For without me their spirit fails, the life breath that I have given.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years.

2 Samuel 24:16

But when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people: Enough now! Stay your hand. The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Job 12:10

In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the life breath of all mortal flesh.

Psalm 85:5

Restore us, God of our salvation; let go of your displeasure with us.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the life breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:8

Driving out and expelling, he struggled against it, carrying it off with his cruel wind on a day of storm.

Isaiah 30:18

Truly, the Lord is waiting to be gracious to you, truly, he shall rise to show you mercy; For the Lord is a God of justice: happy are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its produce, Who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk on it:

Isaiah 64:8

Do not be so very angry, Lord, do not remember our crimes forever; look upon us, who are all your people!

Jeremiah 10:24

Correct me, Lord, but with equity, not in anger, lest you diminish me.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he keep his wrath forever, will he hold his grudge to the end?” This is what you say; yet you do all the evil you can. Judah and Israel.

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah secretly: “As the Lord lives who gave us our lives, I will not kill you, nor will I hand you over to those men who seek your life.”

Ezekiel 18:4

For all life is mine: the life of the parent is like the life of the child, both are mine. Only the one who sins shall die!

Amos 1:11

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and now four— I will not take it back— Because he pursued his brother with the sword, suppressing all pity, Persisting in his anger, his wrath raging without end,

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not persist in anger forever, but instead delights in mercy,

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle: The word of the Lord concerning Israel—oracle of the Lord, who spreads out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and fashions the human spirit within:

Numbers 16:22

But they fell prostrate and exclaimed, “O God, God of the spirits of all living creatures, if one man sins will you be angry with the whole community?”

Hebrews 12:9

Besides this, we have had our earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not [then] submit all the more to the Father of spirits and live?