Isaiah 51:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Listen to me, my people, and give heed to me, my nation, for a teaching will go out from me and my justice for a light to the peoples.

Cross References

Psalm 106:5

that we may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, that we may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that we may glory in your heritage.

Psalm 147:20

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his ordinances. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 33:12

Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.

Psalm 50:7

“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Psalm 78:1

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Exodus 19:6

but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”

Exodus 33:13

Now if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your ways, so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. Consider, too, that this nation is your people.”

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Isaiah 1:27

Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

Isaiah 2:3

Many peoples shall come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth instruction and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates, so that the righteous nation that maintains faithfulness may enter in.

Isaiah 26:8

In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we have placed hope; your name and your renown are the soul’s desire.

Isaiah 33:22

For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our ruler; the Lord is our king; he will save us.

Isaiah 42:21

The Lord was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness, to magnify his teaching and make it glorious.

Isaiah 42:6

I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I have taken you by the hand and kept you; I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations,

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Isaiah 63:8

For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not act deceitfully,” and he became their savior

Micah 4:2

and many nations shall come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.”

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not outside God’s law but am within Christ’s law) so that I might gain those outside the law.

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will put my words in the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.