Isaiah 26:8
Good News Translation
We follow your will and put our hope in you; you are all that we desire.

New Revised Standard Version
In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and your renown are the soul’s desire.

Contemporary English Version
You are the one we trust to bring about justice; above all else we want your name to be honored.

New American Bible
The course of your judgments, LORD, we await; your name and your memory are the desire of our souls.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.

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Isaiah 64:4,5 From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee. . . .

Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and judgment, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to the children of Israel, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho.

Job 23:10-12 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire: . . .

Psalm 18:23 And I shall be spotless with him: and shall keep myself from my iniquity.

Psalm 44:17,18 At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor. . . .

Psalm 65:6 Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:

Psalm 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and do justice at all times.

Malachi 4:4 Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, the precepts, and judgments.

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

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Isaiah 25:9 And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.

Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 33:2 O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for thee: be thou our arm in the morning, and our salvation in the time of trouble.

Psalm 37:3-7 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. . . .

Psalm 63:1 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways!

Micah 7:7 But I will look towards the Lord, I will wait for God, my saviour: my God will hear me.

Acts 1:4 And eating together with them, he commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but should wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard (saith he) by my mouth.

Romans 8:25 But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the patience of Christ.

James 5:7-11 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain. . . .

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2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Psalm 13:1,2 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me? . . .

Psalm 63:1-3 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! . . .

Psalm 73:25 For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?

Psalm 77:10-12 And I said, Now have I begun: this is the change of the right hand of the most High. . . .

Psalm 84:2 my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God.

Psalm 143:5,6 I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands. . . .

Songs 1:2-4 Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee. . . .

Songs 2:3-5 As the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow, whom I desired: and his fruit was sweet to my palate. . . .

Songs 5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Context
A Song of Trust in God's Provision
7The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in. 8And in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, we have patiently waited for thee: thy name, and thy remembrance are the desire of the soul.9My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.…
Cross References
Exodus 3:15
And God said again to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Psalm 130:5
my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

Isaiah 12:4
And you shall say in that day: Praise ye the Lord, and call upon his name: make his works known among the people: remember that his name is high.

Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 25:1
O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt O thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

Isaiah 26:13
O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us, only in thee let us remember thy name.

Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Isaiah 49:23
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him.

Isaiah 51:4
Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.

Isaiah 56:1
Thus saith the Lord: Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.

Micah 4:5
And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

Isaiah 26:7
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