Isaiah 58:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

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  • Jer 33:6 : 6 See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.
  • Ps 37:6 : 6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.
  • Isa 52:12 : 12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.
  • Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
  • Job 11:17 : 17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
  • Isa 57:18 : 18 I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.
  • Isa 58:10-11 : 10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun: 11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.
  • Jer 30:17 : 17 For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.
  • Ps 85:13 : 13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.
  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
  • Hos 6:2-3 : 2 After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
  • Exod 14:19 : 19 Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back:
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
  • Isa 30:26 : 26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 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.
  • Acts 10:4 : 4 And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.
  • Acts 10:31 : 31 Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

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  • Ps 37:6
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    6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

  • Isa 58:9-14
    6 verses
    77%

    9 Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

    10 And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:

    11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

    12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

    13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

    14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.

  • Isa 60:1-3
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    76%

    1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.

    2 For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

    3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.

  • Isa 58:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

    7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

  • Job 11:17
    74%

    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • Isa 60:18-21
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    18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.

    19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.

    20 Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.

    21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

  • Isa 52:12
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    12 For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.

  • Prov 3:8
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    8 This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

  • Mal 4:2
    73%

    2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

  • Isa 30:26
    73%

    26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.

  • Isa 61:11
    72%

    11 For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

  • Isa 55:12
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    12 For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

  • Isa 49:9
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    9 Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

  • Ps 85:13
    72%

    13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

  • Jer 30:17
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    17 For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

  • 2 Sam 23:4
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    4 It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

  • Isa 56:1
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    1 The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

  • Isa 66:14
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    14 And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.

  • Isa 62:2-3
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    2 And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord.

    3 And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.

  • Isa 35:2
    70%

    2 It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

  • Isa 35:5-6
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    5 Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.

    6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

  • Isa 30:21
    70%

    21 And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

  • Isa 61:3
    70%

    3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

  • Jer 33:6
    70%

    6 See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well; I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.

  • Isa 54:14
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    14 All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

  • Prov 4:18
    70%

    18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

  • Isa 60:15
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    15 And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

  • Isa 57:18
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    18 I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.

  • Job 8:6
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    6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • Ps 89:15
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    15 Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • Isa 1:26-27
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    26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.

    27 Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

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    4 For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

  • Isa 59:20
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    20 And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.