Ezra 9:8

New English Translation

“But now briefly we have received mercy from the Lord our God, in that he has left us a remnant and has given us a secure position in his holy place. Thus our God has enlightened our eyes and has given us a little relief in our time of servitude.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:4

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

Ezra 9:9

Although we are slaves, our God has not abandoned us in our servitude. He has extended kindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, in that he has revived us to restore the temple of our God and to raise up its ruins and to give us a protective wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 1:11

Please, O Lord, listen attentively to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me in the presence of this man.” Now I was cupbearer for the king.

Nehemiah 9:31

However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.

Job 33:30

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Psalm 13:3

Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!

Psalm 13:4

Then my enemy will say, “I have defeated him!” Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.

Psalm 138:7

Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, you revive me. You oppose my angry enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

Psalm 34:5

Those who look to him for help are happy; their faces are not ashamed.

Psalm 85:6

Will you not revive us once more? Then your people will rejoice in you!

Proverbs 29:13

The poor person and the oppressor have this in common: the Lord gives light to the eyes of them both.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the sages are like prods, and the collected sayings are like firmly fixed nails; they are given by one shepherd.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord who commands armies had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:3

When the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

Isaiah 56:5

I will set up within my temple and my walls a monument that will be better than sons and daughters. I will set up a permanent monument for them that will remain.

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: “I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.

Isaiah 6:13

Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed, like one of the large sacred trees or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down. That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.”

Jeremiah 42:2

They said to him, “Please grant our request and pray to the Lord your God for all those of us who are still left alive here. For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before.

Jeremiah 44:14

None of the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah. Though they long to return and live there, none of them shall return except a few fugitives.’”

Ezekiel 14:22

Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem – for everything I brought on it.

Hosea 6:2

He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence.

Habakkuk 3:2

Lord, I have heard the report of what you did; I am awed, Lord, by what you accomplished. In our time repeat those deeds; in our time reveal them again. But when you cause turmoil, remember to show us mercy!

Zephaniah 3:12

I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, and they will find safety in the Lord’s presence.

Zechariah 10:4

From him will come the cornerstone, the wall peg, the battle bow, and every ruler.

Zechariah 8:12

‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.

Zechariah 8:6

And,’ says the Lord who rules over all, ‘though such a thing may seem to be difficult in the opinion of the small community of those days, will it also appear difficult to me?’ asks the Lord who rules over all.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved,

Revelation 3:12

The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.

1 Samuel 14:27

But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, his eyes gleamed.

1 Samuel 14:29

Then Jonathan said, “My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed when I tasted just a little of this honey.