Isaiah 57:16

Peace For The Contrite

¹⁵ For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy: "I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged. ¹⁶ For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man's spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created. ¹⁷ I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

Angry Forever

Breath of Life

Psalm 85:5

Will you stay mad at us forever? Will you remain angry throughout future generations?

Micah 7:18

There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.

Isaiah 42:5

This is what the true God, the Lord, says -- the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:

Genesis 6:3

So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."

Numbers 16:22

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, "O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?"

Job 34:14-15

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

Psalm 78:38-39

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

Psalm 103:9-16

He does not always accuse, and does not stay angry.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 10:24

Correct us, Lord, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.

Jeremiah 38:16

So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised, "As surely as the Lord lives who has given us life and breath, I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you."

Zechariah 12:1

The revelation of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: The Lord -- he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person -- says,

Hebrews 12:9

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?