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Isaiah 58:11 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 58 · verse 11
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.Isaiah 58:11 · King James Version
What Isaiah 58:11 means
In drought, not instead of it — the satisfying happens while the ground is dry. Isaiah says this to people who had been fasting for show, and the verses before it name what God wanted instead: feeding the hungry and loosing the bands of wickedness. The watered garden follows that.
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Isaiah 58:11 in context
9Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
11And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Commentary
Cross references
- John 4:14
- Psalms 32:8
- Jeremiah 31:12
- Isaiah 49:10
- John 16:13
- Psalms 25:9
- Proverbs 11:25
- Song of Solomon 4:15
Key words (Strong's)
- continuallytâmîydproperly, continuanceH8548 →
- satisfysâbaʻto sateH7646 →
- droughttsachtsâchâha dry placeH6710 →
- wateredrâvehsatedH7302 →
- gardengana gardenH1588 →
- guidenâchâhto guideH5148 →
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Here are precious promises for those to feast freely and cheerfully upon by faith who keep the fast that God has chosen; let them know that God will make it up to them. Here is, I. A further account of the duty to be done in order to our interest in these promises (Isa 58:9, Isa 58:10);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-12