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Isaiah 45:8

Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

World English Bible

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

American Standard Version

Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Jehovah, have created it.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye heauens, send the dewe from aboue, and let the cloudes droppe downe righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let saluation and iustice growe foorth: let it bring them foorth together: I the Lord haue created him.

Darby Translation

Drop down, [ye] heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I, Jehovah, have created it.

Young's Literal Translation

Drop, ye heavens, from above, And clouds do cause righteousness to flow, Earth openeth, and they are fruitful, Salvation and righteousness spring up together, I, Jehovah, have prepared it.

Bible in Basic English

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

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Cross references

“Drop down”

Hosea 10:12 Psalm 72:6 Isaiah 44:3 Titus 3:3–6 Joel 3:18 Isaiah 32:15

Hosea 10:12 · BSB

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

Psalm 72:6 · BSB

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

Isaiah 44:3 · BSB

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

Titus 3:3–6 · BSB

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Joel 3:18 · BSB

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

Isaiah 32:15 · BSB

until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

“let the earth”

Isaiah 61:11 1 Corinthians 3:6–9 Isaiah 4:2 Isaiah 11:1 Isaiah 53:2 Isaiah 61:3

Isaiah 61:11 · BSB

For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

1 Corinthians 3:6–9 · BSB

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

Isaiah 4:2 · BSB

On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 11:1 · BSB

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

Isaiah 53:2 · BSB

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Isaiah 61:3 · BSB

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the L…

“I the Lord”

Isaiah 66:22 Jeremiah 31:22 Ephesians 2:10 Ephesians 4:24 Isaiah 65:17 Isaiah 65:18

Isaiah 66:22 · BSB

“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.

Jeremiah 31:22 · BSB

How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land— a woman will shelter a man.”

Ephesians 2:10 · BSB

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Ephesians 4:24 · BSB

and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Isaiah 65:17 · BSB

For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

Isaiah 65:18 · BSB

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

Also

Isaiah 60:21

Isaiah 60:21 · BSB

Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?

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