Isaiah 41:17

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Isaiah 41:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

16 You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

19 I will plant cedars in the wilderness, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees. I will set cypresses in the desert, elms and boxwood together,

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Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Isaiah 66:2

Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

Psalms 68:9

You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.

Psalms 68:10

Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.

Psalms 72:12

For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

Psalms 72:13

He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.

Psalms 102:16

For the LORD will rebuild Zion; He has appeared in His glory.

Psalms 102:17

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 55:1

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”

Exodus 17:6

Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Psalms 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Psalms 63:1

O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

Psalms 63:2

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Amos 8:12

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

Amos 8:13

In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

John 4:11

“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

John 4:12

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

John 4:13

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

John 4:14

But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 4:15

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

John 7:38

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

John 7:39

He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Revelation 21:6

And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.

Psalms 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Lamentations 4:4

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Luke 16:24

So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’

Isaiah 30:19

O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

Judges 15:18

And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

Judges 15:19

So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

Psalms 34:6

This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

Psalms 50:15

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

Psalms 107:5

They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.

Psalms 107:6

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Genesis 28:15

Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Psalms 94:14

For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

Hebrews 13:6

So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”