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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Isaiah 57:18

His ways, have I beheld, That I might heal him, - And guide him, And restore consolations to him and to his mourners:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Chastisement;   God Continued...;   Salvation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Disease, Spiritual;   Healing;   Health-Disease;   Penitent;   Restoration;   Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Creation;   Healing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Peace, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Poverty;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lip;   Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Consolation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 12;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for January 20;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I have seen their way of life, but I will heal them. I will guide and comfort them and those who mourn for them.
New Living Translation
I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them. I will comfort those who mourn,
Update Bible Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
New Century Version
I have seen what they have done, but I will heal them. I will guide them and comfort them and those who felt sad for them. They will all praise me.
New English Translation
I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.
Webster's Bible Translation
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
World English Bible
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Amplified Bible
"I have seen his [willful] ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him [also] and will restore comfort to him and to those who mourn for him,
English Standard Version
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y siy hise weies, and Y helide hym, and Y brouyte hym ayen; and Y yaf coumfortyngis to hym, and to the moreneris of hym.
English Revised Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Berean Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,
Contemporary English Version
I know what you are like! But I will heal you, lead you, and give you comfort, until those who are mourning
American Standard Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Bible in Basic English
I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.
Complete Jewish Bible
I have seen their ways, and I will heal them; I will lead them and give comfort to them and to those who mourn for them —
Darby Translation
I have seen his ways, and will heal him; and I will lead him, and will restore comforts unto him and to those of his that mourn.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will lead him also, and requite with comforts him and his mourners.
King James Version (1611)
I haue seene his wayes, and will heale him: I will leade him also, and restore comforts vnto him, and to his mourners.
New Life Bible
I have seen his ways and will heal him. I will lead him and give comfort to him and to those who have sorrow for him.
New Revised Standard
I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will lead them and repay them with comfort, creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue seene his wayes, and wil heale him: I wil leade him also, & restore comfort vnto him, and to those that lament him.
George Lamsa Translation
I have seen her ways, and I have healed her and have comforted her, and I have given comfort to her and to her mourners.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.
Revised Standard Version
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and requite him with comfort, creating for his mourners the fruit of the lips.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue seene his wayes, and I heale hym, I leade him, and restore to hym comfort, and to those that were sorie for hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;
Good News Translation
"I have seen how they acted, but I will heal them. I will lead them and help them, and I will comfort those who mourn.
Christian Standard Bible®
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;I will lead him and restore comfortto him and his mourners,
Hebrew Names Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
King James Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Lexham English Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,
Literal Translation
His ways I have seen, but I will heal him, and will lead him and complete comforts to him and to his mourners.
Young's Literal Translation
His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf I maye se his right waye agayne, I make him whole, I lede him, and restore him vnto them whom he maketh ioyful, & that were sory for him.
New American Standard Bible
"I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,
New King James Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,
Legacy Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;I will lead him and pay him and his mourners in full with comfort,

Contextual Overview

17 Because of his iniquitous gain, was I wroth - and smote him Hiding myself that I might be wroth, - But he went on turning aside in the way of his own heart. 18 His ways, have I beheld, That I might heal him, - And guide him, And restore consolations to him and to his mourners: 19 Creating the fruit of the lips - Prosperity! Prosperity! For him that is far off and for him that is near saith Yahweh, So should I heal him. 20 But, the lawless, are like the sea when tossed, - For, rest, it cannot! But its waters toss out mire and dirt. 21 No well-being, saith my God, to the lawless!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have: Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 43:24, Isaiah 43:25, Isaiah 48:8-11, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Ezekiel 16:60-63, Ezekiel 36:22-38, Luke 15:20, Romans 5:20

will heal: Jeremiah 3:22, Jeremiah 31:3, Jeremiah 33:6, Hosea 14:4-8

will lead: Isaiah 49:10, Psalms 23:2, Revelation 7:17

restore: Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 61:2, Isaiah 61:3, Isaiah 66:10-13, Psalms 51:12

to his: Jeremiah 13:17, Ecclesiastes 9:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:26 - for I am Leviticus 23:32 - afflict 2 Samuel 12:1 - unto David Psalms 37:11 - delight Psalms 107:17 - because Isaiah 30:18 - wait Isaiah 58:8 - and thine Isaiah 60:10 - in my wrath Jeremiah 17:14 - Heal Jeremiah 31:20 - I will Jeremiah 32:36 - now Haggai 2:9 - give Zechariah 9:10 - he shall Malachi 4:2 - healing Matthew 5:4 - General Matthew 13:15 - and I Luke 6:21 - ye that weep Luke 24:36 - Peace John 12:40 - heal John 20:19 - Peace Acts 9:6 - and it Acts 16:34 - and rejoiced 2 Corinthians 7:6 - that comforteth Revelation 22:2 - healing

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have seen his ways, and will heal him,.... Either the ways of such who trust in the Lord, the ways of the humble and contrite, who are brought by repentance and reformation, by the dealings of God with them; these he sees, knows, and approves of, and heals their former backslidings; for though not all, yet some may be reformed hereby; or rather the ways of the froward, their evil ways, which are their own ways in opposition to God's ways, peculiar to themselves, of their own devising and choosing; these the Lord sees, resents, and corrects for, and yet graciously pardons them, which is meant by healing:

I will lead him also; out of those evil ways of his into the good and right way in which he should go; into the way of truth and paths of righteousness; for it is for want of evangelical light and knowledge that so many err from the truths of the Gospel, and from the simplicity of Gospel worship; but in the latter day the Spirit of truth shall be poured down from on high, and shall lead professors of real religion into all truth, and they shall speak a pure language, and worship the Lord with one consent:

and restore comforts to him, and to his mourners; that mourn over their own sins, and the sins of others; that mourn in Zion, and for Zion; for the corruptions in doctrine and worship crept into the reformed churches; for the want of church discipline and Gospel conversation; for the declensions of professors of religion, and the divisions among them; and for that worldly, earthly, and carnal spirit that prevails; for these, as bad as our times are, there are some that mourn publicly and privately; and to these, and to the church for their sakes, comfort shall be restored, by sending forth Gospel light, truth, and knowledge, which shall cover the earth as the waters the sea; by reviving primitive doctrines and ordinances; by blessing the word to the conversion of a multitude of sinners, and to the edification of saints; by causing brotherly love, peace, and spirituality, to abound among professors, and by blessing all the means of grace to the consolation of their souls; and by making particular applications of the blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ, for pardon, justification, and atonement, the solid foundation of all true comfort.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have seen his ways - That is, either his ways of sin, or of repentance most probably it means the former; and the idea is, that God had seen how prone his people were to sin, and that he would now interpose and correct their proneness to sin against him, and remove from them the judgments which had been brought upon them in consequence of their crimes.

And will heal him - That is, I will pardon and restore him. Sin, in the Scriptures, is often represented as a disease, and pardon and salvation as a healing of the disease (2 Chronicles 7:14; Psalms 41:4; Jeremiah 3:22; Jeremiah 17:4; Jeremiah 32:6; Hosea 14:4; see the notes at Isaiah 6:10).

And to his mourners - To the pious portion that mourned over their sin; or to the nation which would sigh in their long and painful captivity in Babylon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 57:18. I have seen his ways — Probably these verses refer to the restoration of the Jews from captivity.


 
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