Isaiah 28:12

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To whom He said, 'This is the place of rest—give rest to the weary; this is the place of repose’—but they would not listen.

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  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: 'In repentance and rest you will be saved; in quietness and trust is your strength. But you were not willing.'
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord says: 'Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 The word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear.
  • Zech 7:14 : 14 'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
  • 2 Chr 16:8-9 : 8 Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand. 9 For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, you will face wars.
  • Ps 81:11-13 : 11 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it. 12 But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. 13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels.
  • Isa 11:10 : 10 In that day, the root of Jesse will stand as a signal for the peoples. The nations will seek him, and his resting place will be glorious.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See to it that you do not reject the one who speaks. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 28:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13So the word of the LORD to them will be: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there—so that they may go and fall backward, be broken, snared, and captured.

    14Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 28:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9Who is He trying to teach knowledge to? Who is He explaining His message to? To those just weaned from milk, those just taken from the breast?

    10For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.

    11Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.

  • Isa 30:15
    75%

    15For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: 'In repentance and rest you will be saved; in quietness and trust is your strength. But you were not willing.'

  • Heb 4:5
    75%

    5And again, in the same passage, "They shall not enter My rest."

  • Matt 11:28
    74%

    28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    74%

    26'Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive."'

    27For this people's heart has grown calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.'

  • Heb 4:8-11
    4 verses
    74%

    8For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

    9Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

    10For the one who has entered His rest has also rested from his own works, just as God did from His.

    11Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same example of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:18
    73%

    18And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his rest, if not to those who disobeyed?

  • Job 3:17
    72%

    17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • Jer 17:23
    72%

    23Yet they did not listen or incline their ear. They stiffened their necks and would not listen or take correction.

  • Heb 3:11
    72%

    11So I swore in my anger, 'They shall not enter my rest.'

  • Jer 7:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer you.

    28So you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept discipline; truth has perished and is cut off from their lips.'

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9And He said, "Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.’

    10Make the hearts of this people dull, their ears heavy, and their eyes blind; otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back and be healed."

  • Jer 6:10
    71%

    10To whom can I speak and give warning so they will listen? Their ears are closed, and they cannot pay attention. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they take no pleasure in it.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    71%

    21In the Law it is written: 'By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me,' says the Lord.

  • Ps 95:11
    71%

    11So I swore in My anger, 'They shall not enter My rest.'

  • Lev 26:35
    71%

    35As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths while you lived there.

  • Matt 13:14
    71%

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.'

  • Isa 29:12
    71%

    12Or if the book is handed to someone who cannot read, and they are told, 'Read this, please,' they answer, 'I do not know how to read.'

  • Jer 6:16-17
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    70%

    16This is what the Lord says: 'Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

    17I appointed watchmen over you and said, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'

  • Isa 40:29-30
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    70%

    29He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.

    30Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;

  • Heb 12:19
    70%

    19to a trumpet blast or a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them,

  • Zech 7:11
    70%

    11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear.

  • Heb 4:3
    70%

    3For we who have believed are entering that rest, just as He said, "As I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,'" even though His works have been finished since the foundation of the world.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
    70%

    14But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.

  • Rom 11:8
    70%

    8As it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day."

  • Isa 14:3
    70%

    3On the day the LORD gives you rest from your pain, your turmoil, and the harsh labor imposed on you,

  • Mal 2:17
    70%

    17You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you ask, 'How have we wearied Him?' By saying, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and He delights in them,' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • Jer 29:19
    70%

    19I will do this because they have not listened to my words—this is the LORD's declaration—that I sent to them again and again through my servants the prophets. And you also have not listened—this is the LORD's declaration.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
    70%

    19The Lord sent prophets among them to bring them back to Him, but though the prophets testified against them, they refused to listen.

  • Neh 9:30
    70%

    30For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.

  • Jer 25:28
    69%

    28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, tell them, 'This is what the LORD of Hosts says: You must drink it!'

  • Zech 7:13
    69%

    13'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.

  • Isa 14:7
    69%

    7The whole earth is at rest and at peace; they break forth into singing.

  • Isa 50:4
    69%

    4The Sovereign LORD has given me the tongue of the learned, so that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens me morning by morning; He awakens my ear to listen like one being taught.

  • Isa 28:23
    69%

    23Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear my words.

  • Isa 62:7
    69%

    7and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

  • Jer 31:2
    69%

    2This is what the LORD says: The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness as Israel journeyed to find rest.

  • Jer 5:21
    69%

    21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.