Isaiah 28:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength: but you would not.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 As for the word that 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 heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.
  • Zech 7:14 : 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, 'LORD, it is nothing for You to help, whether with many, or with those who have no power; help us, O LORD our God, for we rest on You, and in Your name we go against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.'
  • 2 Chr 16:8-9 : 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a large army, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand. 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.
  • Ps 81:11-13 : 11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me. 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh, that my people would have listened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
  • Isa 11:10 : 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand as a sign for the people; to it the Gentiles shall seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 28:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13But the word of the LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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

  • Isa 28:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

    10For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

    11For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

  • Isa 30:15
    75%

    15For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength: but you would not.

  • Heb 4:5
    75%

    5And in this place again, "They shall not enter into my rest."

  • Matt 11:28
    74%

    28Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

  • Acts 28:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

    27For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should heal them.

  • Heb 4:8-11
    4 verses
    74%

    8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not afterward have spoken of another day.

    9There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

    10For he who has entered into his rest has also ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

    11Let us therefore labor to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of unbelief.

  • Heb 3:18
    73%

    18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not believe?

  • Job 3:17
    72%

    17There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

  • Jer 17:23
    72%

    23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • Heb 3:11
    72%

    11So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.

  • Jer 7:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

    28But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9And He said, Go and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and you see indeed, but do not perceive.

    10Make the heart of this people dull, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and healed.

  • Jer 6:10
    71%

    10To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    71%

    21In the law it is written: With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people, and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the Lord.

  • Ps 95:11
    71%

    11Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

  • Lev 26:35
    71%

    35As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

  • Matt 13:14
    71%

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

  • Isa 29:12
    71%

    12And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, please: and he says, I am not learned.

  • Jer 6:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16Thus says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.

    17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen.

  • Isa 40:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might he increases strength.

    30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,

  • Heb 12:19
    70%

    19And the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:

  • Zech 7:11
    70%

    11But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

  • Heb 4:3
    70%

    3For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, "As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
    70%

    14Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

  • Rom 11:8
    70%

    8According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day.

  • Isa 14:3
    70%

    3And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

  • Mal 2:17
    70%

    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • Jer 29:19
    70%

    19Because they have not heeded my words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
    70%

    19Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not listen.

  • Neh 9:30
    70%

    30Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

  • Jer 25:28
    69%

    28And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; You shall certainly drink.

  • Zech 7:13
    69%

    13Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:

  • Isa 14:7
    69%

    7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

  • Isa 50:4
    69%

    4The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as the learned.

  • Isa 28:23
    69%

    23Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

  • Isa 62:7
    69%

    7And give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

  • Jer 31:2
    69%

    2Thus says the LORD, The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to give him rest.

  • Jer 5:21
    69%

    21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not: