Isaiah 58:8
Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up.
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Job 11:17And brightness, like that of midday, will rise upon you until evening, and when you would think yourself consumed, you will rise up like the morning star.
Psalms 85:13For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell.
Psalms 112:4The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is high above the heavens.
Proverbs 11:17A merciful man benefits his own soul. But whoever is cruel casts out even his close relatives.
Isaiah 30:26And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord will bind the wound of his people, and when he will heal the stroke of their scourge.
Isaiah 57:18I saw his ways, and I healed him, and I led him back again, and I restored consolations to him and to those who mourn for him.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 58:4-8
A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a… Read the whole commentary →