Isaiah 55:11

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“so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.”

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“so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that <FI>for<Fi> which I sent it.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 55:11 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 32:2Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
  2. 1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.
  3. Isaiah 44:26who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,’
  4. Isaiah 45:23By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
  5. Isaiah 46:10I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
  6. Isaiah 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
  7. Jeremiah 1:11And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
  8. Jeremiah 1:12“You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
  9. Jeremiah 1:13Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”
  10. Jeremiah 25:13I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
  11. Zechariah 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”
  12. Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
  13. Luke 8:11Now this is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God.
  14. John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
  15. Romans 10:17Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
  16. 1 Corinthians 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
  17. 1 Corinthians 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
  18. Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
  19. 1 Thessalonians 2:13And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as the true word of God—the word which is now at work in you who believe.
  20. Hebrews 6:7For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
  21. James 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
  22. 1 Peter 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

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