Isaiah 57:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, neither will I be angry always, for [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would faint and be consumed before Me, and [My purpose in] creating the souls of men would be frustrated.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I won’t always accuse, nor will I be enraged forever. It is my own doing that their spirit is exhausted— I gave them breath!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For I will not contend unceasingly, and I will not be angry to the end. For I will exhale my breath, and the Spirit will go forth from my face.

Isaiah 57:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 6:3

The LORD said, *My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years.*

2 Samuel 24:16

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Yerushalayim to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Aravna the Yevusi.

Job 12:10

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Psalm 85:5

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 27:8

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God the LORD, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Jeremiah 10:24

LORD, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.

Jeremiah 38:16

So Tzidkiyahu the king swore secretly to Yirmeyahu, saying, As the LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.

Amos 1:11

Thus says the LORD: *For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Zechariah 12:1

An oracle. The word of the LORD concerning Yisra'el. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?