Cross references

Isaiah 49:8

This is what the LORD says:

“In the time of favor I will answer You,

and in the day of salvation I will help You;

I will keep You and appoint You

to be a covenant for the people,

to restore the land,

to apportion its desolate inheritances,

Isaiah 49:8 BSB
  1. a LXX In the time of favor I heard You, and in the day of salvation I helped You; cited in 2 Corinthians 6:2

Isaiah 49:8 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 23 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Corinthians 6:2 (26 votes) and Isaiah 42:6 (17 votes). 43 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Numbers 4 to Revelation 7.

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Which verses does Isaiah 49:8 point to?

The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!

  2. Isaiah 42:617 votes

    “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

  3. Psalm 69:1313 votes

    But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

  4. They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.

  5. to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

  6. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

  7. who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’

  8. I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

  9. remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. …

  10. During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

  11. Psalm 2:85 votes
  12. Psalm 75:35 votes
  13. “Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.

  14. For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

  15. For you will spread out to the right and left; your descendants will dispossess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.

  16. For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

Which verses point to Isaiah 49:8?

The 10 strongest of 43.