Isaiah 48:17
The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
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Joshua 3:4But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.
Job 22:21Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.
Psalms 25:8Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.
Psalms 32:8I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.
Psalms 73:24Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.
Isaiah 30:20And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:17-22
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God , and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of… Read the whole commentary →