Isaiah 57:16 Cross References - YLT

¹⁶ For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.

³ And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man—to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

²² and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh—the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'

¹⁴ If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. ¹⁵ Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

³⁸ And He—the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury. ³⁹ And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on—and it returneth not.

⁵ To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

⁹ Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch. ¹⁰ Not according to our sins hath He done to us, Nor according to our iniquities Hath He conferred benefits upon us. ¹¹ For, as the height of the heavens is above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him. ¹² As the distance of east from west He hath put far from us our transgressions. ¹³ As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him. ¹⁴ For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we are dust. ¹⁵ Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth; ¹⁶ For a wind hath passed over it, and it is not, And its place doth not discern it any more.

⁷ And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

⁵ Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking in it.

²⁴ Chastise me, O Jehovah, only in judgment, Not in Thine anger, lest Thou make me small.

¹⁶ And the king Zedekiah sweareth unto Jeremiah in secret, saying, `Jehovah liveth, He who made for us this soul, I do not put thee to death, nor give thee unto the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul.'

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness.

¹ The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.

⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?