Isaiah 57:18
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.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

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

New American Bible
I saw their ways, but I will heal them. I will lead them and restore full comfort to them and to those who mourn for them,

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.

have

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Isaiah 43:24,25 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities. . . .

Isaiah 48:8-11 Thou hast neither heard, nor known, neither was thy ear opened of old. For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb. . . .

Jeremiah 31:18-20 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God. . . .

Ezekiel 16:60-63 And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant. . . .

Ezekiel 36:22 Therefore thou shalt say to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: It is not for your sake that I will do this, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations whither you went.

Luke 15:20 And rising up, he came to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion and running to him fell upon his neck and kissed him.

Romans 5:20 Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

will heal

Jeremiah 3:22 Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord hath appeared from afar to me. Yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore have I drawn thee, taking pity on thee.

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Hosea 14:4-8 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them. . . .

will lead

Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink.

Psalm 23:2 He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:

Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

restore

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 12:1 And thou shalt say in that day: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and thou hast comforted me.

Isaiah 61:2,3 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn: . . .

Isaiah 66:10-13 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her. . . .

Psalm 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

to his

Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride: weeping it shall weep, and my eyes shall run down with tears, because the flock of the Lord is carried away captive.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Context
Healing for the Repentant
17For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and I struck him: I hid my face from thee, and was angry: and he went away wandering in his own heart. 18I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.19I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.…
Cross References
Psalm 94:19
According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.

Isaiah 19:22
And the Lord shall strike Egypt with a scourge, and shall heal it, and they shall return to the Lord, and he shall be pacified towards them, and heal them.

Isaiah 30:26
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Isaiah 52:12
For you shall not go out in a tumult, neither shall you make haste by flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will gather you together.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

Isaiah 58:11
And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up.

Isaiah 61:2
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God: to comfort all that mourn:

Jeremiah 31:20
Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.

Hosea 14:4
I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

Zechariah 1:13
And the Lord answered the angel, that spoke in me, good words, comfortable words.

Isaiah 57:17
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