Isaiah 57:16 “For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for the…”

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me— the breath of life I have made.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

World English Bible

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

American Standard Version

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

Geneva Bible 1599

For I will not contende for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth, for the spirite should fayle before me: and I haue made the breath.

Darby Translation

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.

Young's Literal Translation

For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.

Bible in Basic English

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

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Cross references

“I will not”

Micah 7:18 Jeremiah 10:24 Psalm 85:5 Psalm 103:9–16 Psalm 78:38 Psalm 78:39

Micah 7:18 · BSB

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Jeremiah 10:24 · BSB

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Psalm 85:5 · BSB

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

Psalm 103:9–16 · BSB

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Psalm 78:38 · BSB

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalm 78:39 · BSB

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

“the souls”

Hebrews 12:9 Numbers 16:22 Isaiah 42:5 Jeremiah 38:16 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Zechariah 12:1

Hebrews 12:9 · BSB

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Numbers 16:22 · BSB

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

Isaiah 42:5 · BSB

This is what God the LORD says— He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Jeremiah 38:16 · BSB

But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”

Ecclesiastes 12:7 · BSB

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Zechariah 12:1 · BSB

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Also

Genesis 6:3

Genesis 6:3 · BSB

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

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

In context

15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

17I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

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