Isaiah 58:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

The lord

And satisfy

Hosea 13:5

Make fat

Be like

Fail

Job 6:15

General references

Isaiah 41:18

Bible References

The lord

They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.

He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus make a way for us to come to you;

And satisfy

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.

Make fat

This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

He who gives blessing will be made fat, but the curser will himself be cursed.

The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

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

Be like

For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

Fail

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

General references

I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.