Isaiah 57:13

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Summary

When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

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Zechariah 7:13

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Bible References

Let

And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

All the keepers of your sheep will be food for the wind, and your lovers will be taken away prisoners: truly, then you will be shamed and unhonoured because of all your evil-doing.

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

But the

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

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The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.

Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.

A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.