Isaiah 58:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

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  • Ps 50:15 : 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
  • Isa 65:24 : 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
  • Prov 6:13 : 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
  • Ps 34:15-17 : 15 The eyes of the LORD [are] upon the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their cry. 16 The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
  • Ps 37:4 : 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Jer 29:12-13 : 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 ¶ ‹Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:› 8 ‹For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.›
  • 1 John 3:21-22 : 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. 22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
  • Ezek 13:8 : 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Zech 10:2 : 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because [there was] no shepherd.
  • Isa 30:19 : 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
  • Isa 57:4 : 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, [and] draw out the tongue? [are] ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
  • Isa 59:3-4 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  • Gen 27:18 : 18 ¶ And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here [am] I; who [art] thou, my son?
  • 1 Sam 3:4-8 : 4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am] I. 5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. 6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again. 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. 8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
  • Ps 118:5 : 5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.
  • Ps 66:18-19 : 18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]: 19 [But] verily God hath heard [me]; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 29:12-13
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    12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

    13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

  • 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  • 10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:

  • Isa 58:5-8
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    5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

    6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

    7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

    8 ¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

  • 15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

  • 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

  • 3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

  • Isa 58:13-14
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    13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:

    14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

  • 1 ¶ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

  • Isa 55:5-6
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    5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

    6 ¶ Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

  • 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

  • 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, [and] thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

  • 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

  • 6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, [and] hear my speech.

  • 1 ¶ Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

  • 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

  • Deut 4:29-30
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    29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

    30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;

  • 3 ¶ Wherefore have we fasted, [say they], and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

  • 13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

  • 1 ¶ Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

  • 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

  • Isa 1:15-16
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    15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

    16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

  • 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

  • 13 ¶ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

  • 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

  • 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.

  • Ps 27:7-8
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    7 ¶ Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

    8 [When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

  • 21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; [but] thou saidst, I will not hear. This [hath been] thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

  • 1 ¶ A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

  • 15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

  • 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

  • Lam 3:56-57
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    69%

    56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

    57 Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

  • 9 ¶ The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and [the man of] wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

  • 4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?

  • 28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

  • 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

  • 2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

  • 9 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;

  • 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

  • 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;