“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    “For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

  • KJV King James Version

    For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    For this is as the waters of Noah unto Me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

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Cross-references (9)

Passages linked to Isaiah 54:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Isaiah 12:1 In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
  • Genesis 8:21 Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
  • Genesis 9:11-16 I will establish my covenant with you: All flesh will not be cut off any more by the waters of the flood. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
  • Hebrews 6:16-18 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Psalms 104:9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
  • Isaiah 55:11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
  • Jeremiah 31:35-36 Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says: “If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”
  • Jeremiah 33:20-26 “Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time; then may my covenant also be broken with David my servant, that he won’t have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ” Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah, saying, “Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘Has Yahweh cast off the two families which he chose?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.” Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
  • Ezekiel 39:20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’

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Explain this verse (17 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain As sure as the promise that I made to…

As sure as the promise that I made to Noah, that the waters should no more overflow the earth.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 54:9 For this [is as] the waters of…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This is as the waters of Noah unto me;…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For this is as the waters of Noah unto…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain This - This covenant of grace and peace made…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. For this is as the waters of…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 54:9-10. For this is as the waters of…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For this is as the waters of Noah unto…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Earth. Giving him the rainbow for a sign. My…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I am about to do the same in this…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9, 10. As the waters of Noah unto me…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9, 10. The permanence of the new covenant relation…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) This is as the waters of Noah.—Interesting (1)…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This is as the waters of Noah unto me.…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain For this is as the waters of Noah unto…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the waters of Noah
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 54:9 The Exile was similar in both drama and…

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