Isaiah 28:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
  • Zech 7:14 : 14 But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
  • 2 Chr 16:8-9 : 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands. 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
  • Ps 81:11-13 : 11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes. 13 If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
  • Isa 11:10 : 10 And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 28:13-14
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    79%

    13 For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

    14 Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:

  • Isa 28:9-11
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    77%

    9 To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?

    10 For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

    11 No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:

  • Isa 30:15
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    15 For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.

  • Heb 4:5
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    5 And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.

  • Matt 11:28
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    28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

    27 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

  • Heb 4:8-11
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    74%

    8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.

    9 So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

    10 For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

    11 Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

  • Heb 3:18
    73%

    18 And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?

  • Job 3:17
    72%

    17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

  • Heb 3:11
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    11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.

  • Jer 7:27-28
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    27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

    28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    71%

    9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

    10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

  • Jer 6:10
    71%

    10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    71%

    21 In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

  • Ps 95:11
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    11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

  • Lev 26:35
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    35 All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

  • Matt 13:14
    71%

    14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

  • Isa 29:12
    71%

    12 And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

  • Jer 6:16-17
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    70%

    16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

    17 And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.

  • Isa 40:29-30
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    70%

    29 He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

    30 Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

  • Heb 12:19
    70%

    19 And to the sound of a horn, and the voice of words, the hearers of which made request that not a word more might be said to them:

  • Zech 7:11
    70%

    11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

  • Heb 4:3
    70%

    3 For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

  • Rom 11:8
    70%

    8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

  • Isa 14:3
    70%

    3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

  • Mal 2:17
    70%

    17 You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

  • Jer 29:19
    70%

    19 Because they have not given ear to my words, says the Lord, when I sent to them my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you did not give ear, says the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
    70%

    19 And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear.

  • Neh 9:30
    70%

    30 Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Jer 25:28
    69%

    28 And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.

  • Zech 7:13
    69%

    13 And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

  • Isa 14:7
    69%

    7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

  • Isa 50:4
    69%

    4 The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:

  • Isa 28:23
    69%

    23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

  • Isa 62:7
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    7 And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.

  • Jer 31:2
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    2 The Lord has said, Grace came in the waste land to a people kept safe from the sword, even to Israel on the way to his resting-place.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing: