Isaiah 49:13

New International Reader's Version

Shout for joy, you heavens! Be glad, you earth! Burst into song, you mountains! The Lord will comfort his people. He will show his tender love to those who are suffering.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 16:31

Let the heavens be filled with joy. Let the earth be glad. Let them say among the nations, “The Lord rules!”

Psalm 148:9

Praise him, all you mountains and hills. Praise him, all you fruit trees and cedar trees.

Psalm 65:13

The meadows are covered with flocks and herds. The valleys are dressed with grain. They sing and shout for joy.

Psalm 69:34

Let heaven and earth praise him. Let the oceans and everything that moves in them praise him.

Psalm 71:21

You will honor me more and more. You will comfort me once again.

Psalm 89:13

Your arm is powerful. Your hand is strong. Your right hand is mighty.

Isaiah 12:1

In days to come, the people of Israel will sing, “Lord, we will praise you. You were angry with us. But now your anger has turned away from us. And you have brought us comfort.

Isaiah 14:1

The Lord will show tender love toward Jacob’s people. Once again he will choose Israel. He’ll give them homes in their own land. Outsiders will join them. They and the people of Jacob will become one people.

Isaiah 44:23

Sing for joy, you heavens! The Lord does wonderful things. Shout out loud, you earth! Burst into song, you mountains! Sing, you forests and all your trees! The Lord sets the family of Jacob free. He shows his glory in Israel.

Isaiah 48:20

People of Israel, leave Babylon! Hurry up and get away from the Babylonians! Here is what I want you to announce. Make it known with shouts of joy. Send the news out from one end of the earth to the other. Say, “The Lord has set free his servant Jacob.”

Isaiah 49:14

But the city of Zion said, “The Lord has deserted me. The Lord has forgotten me.”

Isaiah 51:12

The Lord says to his people, “I comfort you because of who I am. Why are you afraid of mere human beings? They are like grass that dries up.

Isaiah 51:3

You can be sure that I will comfort Zion’s people. I will look with loving concern on all their destroyed buildings. I will make their deserts like Eden. I will make their dry and empty land like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be there. People will sing and give thanks to me.

Isaiah 52:9

Burst into songs of joy together, you broken-down buildings in Jerusalem. The Lord has comforted his people. He has set Jerusalem free.

Isaiah 54:7

“For a brief moment I left you. But because I love you so much, I will bring you back.

Isaiah 54:8

For a moment I turned my face away from you. I was very angry with you. But I will show you my loving concern. My faithful love will continue forever,” says the Lord. He is the one who set you free.

Isaiah 55:12

“My people, you will go out of Babylon with joy. You will be led out of it in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song as you go. And all the trees in the fields will clap their hands.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then young women will dance and be glad. And so will the men, young and old alike. I will turn their mourning into gladness. I will comfort them. And I will give them joy instead of sorrow.

Jeremiah 51:48

So heaven and earth and everything in them will shout for joy. They will be glad because of what will happen to Babylon. Armies will attack it from the north. And they will destroy it,” announces the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:14

The Lord and King says, “The whole earth will be glad. But I will make your land empty.

Luke 15:10

I tell you, it is the same in heaven. There is joy in heaven over one sinner who turns away from sin.”

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God comforts those who are sad. He comforted us when Titus came.