Isaiah 57:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired, but you do not say,‘I give up.’ You get renewed energy, so you don’t collapse.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 2:25 : 25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’
  • Jer 18:12 : 12 But they just keep saying,‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”
  • Jer 44:17-18 : 17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles. 18 But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.”
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Be sure of this! The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.
  • Rom 7:9 : 9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.
  • Jer 3:3 : 3 That is why the rains have been withheld, and the spring rains have not come. Yet in spite of this you are obstinate as a prostitute. You refuse to be ashamed of what you have done.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 LORD, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
  • 2 Chr 28:22-23 : 22 During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the LORD. 23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. He reasoned,“Since the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.
  • Isa 47:13 : 13 You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand– the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions– let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9 You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

  • 11 Whom are you worried about? Whom do you fear, that you would act so deceitfully and not remember me or think about me? Because I have been silent for so long, you are not afraid of me.

  • 25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

  • Job 4:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.

    6 Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

  • 7 You said,‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.

  • Jer 30:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 There is no one to plead your cause. There are no remedies for your wounds. There is no healing for you.

    14 All your allies have abandoned you. They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.

    15 Why do you complain about your injuries, that your pain is incurable? I have done all this to you because your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.

  • 10 You were complacent in your evil deeds; you thought,‘No one sees me.’ Your self-professed wisdom and knowledge lead you astray, when you say,‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’

  • 22 The Lord Rebukes His People“But you did not call for me, O Jacob; you did not long for me, O Israel.

  • 18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”

  • 17 You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the LORD your God when he was leading you along the right path.

  • 22 You will probably ask yourself,‘Why have these things happened to me? Why have I been treated like a disgraced adulteress whose skirt has been torn off and her limbs exposed?’ It is because you have sinned so much.

  • Lam 3:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

    18 So I said,“My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD.”

  • 5 The LORD answered,“If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you feel secure only in safe and open country, how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?

  • 10 You have slacked off in the day of trouble– your strength is small!

  • 10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • 3 ‘You have said,“I feel so hopeless! For the LORD has added sorrow to my suffering. I am worn out from groaning. I can’t find any rest.”’”

  • 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.

  • 11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 33 “My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

  • 3 Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

  • 17 Resistance 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?”

  • 18 And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.

  • 6 I, the LORD, say:‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”

  • Isa 40:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27 Why do you say, Jacob, Why do you say, Israel,“The LORD is not aware of what is happening to me, My God is not concerned with my vindication”?

    28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is an eternal God, the Creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.

  • Jer 2:36-37
    2 verses
    69%

    36 Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.

    37 Moreover, you will come away from Egypt with your hands covering your faces in sorrow and shame because the LORD will not allow your reliance on them to be successful and you will not gain any help from them.

  • 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

  • 21 While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. But you said,“I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.

  • 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

  • 5 Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

  • 21 You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.

  • 8 You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

  • Isa 51:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 Why do you forget the LORD, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?

    14 The one who suffers will soon be released; he will not die in prison, he will not go hungry.

  • 10 Your schemes will bring shame to your house. Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.

  • 7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

  • 9 (41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

  • 7 So, now the LORD says,‘You have not listened to me. But you have made me angry by the things that you have done. Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’

  • 30 And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.

  • 30 “‘How sick is your heart, declares the Sovereign LORD, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

  • 9 Jerusalem, why are you now shouting so loudly? Has your king disappeared? Has your wise leader been destroyed? Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?

  • 9 Israel’s King Unable to Deliver the Nation I will destroy you, O Israel! Who is there to help you?

  • 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.

  • 23 “‘After all of your evil–“Woe! Woe to you!” declares the Sovereign LORD–