Isaiah 28:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

In the past he said to them,“This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” But they refused to listen.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For this is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel says:“If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 The LORD said to his people:“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said,“We will not follow it!”
  • Jer 44:16 : 16 “We will not listen to what you claim the LORD has spoken to us!
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.
  • Zech 7:14 : 14 ‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 Asa prayed to the LORD his God:“O LORD, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. O LORD, you are our God; don’t let men prevail against you!”
  • 2 Chr 16:8-9 : 8 Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the LORD, he handed them over to you! 9 Certainly the LORD watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.”
  • Ps 81:11-13 : 11 But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me. 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them. 13 If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!
  • Isa 11:10 : 10 Israel is Reclaimed and Reunited At that time a root from Jesse will stand like a signal flag for the nations. Nations will look to him for guidance, and his residence will be majestic.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 28:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.

    14The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem Therefore, listen to the LORD’s message, you who mock, you rulers of these people who reside in Jerusalem!

  • Isa 28:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!

    10Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

    11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

  • Isa 30:15
    75%

    15For this is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel says:“If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.

  • Heb 4:5
    75%

    5but to repeat the text cited earlier:“They will never 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
    2 verses
    74%

    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

    27For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart 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 afterward about another day.

    9Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

    10For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

    11Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

  • Heb 3:18
    73%

    18And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

  • Job 3:17
    72%

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

  • Jer 17:23
    72%

    23Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’

  • Heb 3:11
    72%

    11“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’”

  • Jer 7:27-28
    2 verses
    72%

    27Then the LORD said to me,“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

    28So tell them:‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the LORD their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’

    10Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

  • Jer 6:10
    71%

    10I answered,“Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, the LORD’s message is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
    71%

    21It is written in the law:“By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.

  • Ps 95:11
    71%

    11So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

  • Lev 26:35
    71%

    35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

  • Matt 13:14
    71%

    14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

  • Isa 29:12
    71%

    12Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”

  • Jer 6:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16The LORD said to his people:“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.” But they said,“We will not follow it!”

    17The LORD said,“I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying:‘Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!’” But they said,“We will not pay attention!”

  • Isa 40:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29He gives strength to those who are tired; to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.

    30Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.

  • Heb 12:19
    70%

    19and the blast of a trumpet and a voice uttering words such that those who heard begged to hear no more.

  • Zech 7:11
    70%

    11“But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.

  • Heb 4:3
    70%

    3For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
    70%

    14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

  • Rom 11:8
    70%

    8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

  • Isa 14:3
    70%

    3When the LORD gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety, and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

  • Mal 2:17
    70%

    17Resistance to the Lord through Self-deceit You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say,“How have we wearied him?” Because you say,“Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD’s opinion, and he delights in them,” or“Where is the God of justice?”

  • Jer 29:19
    70%

    19For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,’ says the LORD.‘And you exiles have not paid any attention to them either,’ says the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
    70%

    19The LORD sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

  • Neh 9:30
    70%

    30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

  • Jer 25:28
    69%

    28If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says‘You most certainly must drink it!

  • Zech 7:13
    69%

    13“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said.

  • Isa 14:7
    69%

    7The whole earth rests and is quiet; they break into song.

  • Isa 50:4
    69%

    4The Servant Perseveres The Sovereign LORD has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

  • Isa 28:23
    69%

    23Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!

  • Isa 62:7
    69%

    7Don’t allow him to rest until he reestablishes Jerusalem, until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.

  • Jer 31:2
    69%

    2Israel Will Be Restored and Join Judah in Worship The LORD says,“The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.

  • Jer 5:21
    69%

    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive: