Isaiah 57:18
New International Version
I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners,

New Living Translation
I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them. I will comfort those who mourn,

English Standard Version
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Berean Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

King James Bible
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

New King James Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

New American Standard Bible
“I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

NASB 1995
“I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

NASB 1977
“I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

Legacy Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and pay him and his mourners in full with comfort,

Amplified Bible
“I have seen his [willful] ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him [also] and will restore comfort to him and to those who mourn for him,

Christian Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

American Standard Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Her ways I have seen, and I have healed her, and I have comforted her, and I have paid comfort to her and to her mourners

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I have seen his ways, and healed him, and comforted him, and given him true comfort;

Contemporary English Version
I know what you are like! But I will heal you, lead you, and give you comfort, until those who are mourning

Douay-Rheims Bible
I saw his ways, and I healed him, and brought him back, and restored comforts to him, and to them that mourn for him.

English Revised Version
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I've seen their [sinful] ways, but I'll heal them. I'll guide them and give them rest. I'll comfort them and their mourners.

Good News Translation
"I have seen how they acted, but I will heal them. I will lead them and help them, and I will comfort those who mourn.

International Standard Version
I've seen his ways, yet I will heal him, and restore for him comfort to him and for those who mourn for him

JPS Tanakh 1917
I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will lead him also, and requite with comforts him and his mourners.

Literal Standard Version
I have seen his ways, and I heal him, indeed, I lead him, | And repay comforts to him and to his mourning ones.

Majority Standard Bible
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

New American Bible
I saw their ways, but I will heal them. I will lead them and restore full comfort to them and to those who mourn for them,

NET Bible
I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.

New Revised Standard Version
I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will lead them and repay them with comfort, creating for their mourners the fruit of the lips.

New Heart English Bible
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

World English Bible
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Young's Literal Translation
His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Healing for the Repentant
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. 18I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners, 19bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”…

Cross References
Psalm 94:19
When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.

Isaiah 19:22
And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

Isaiah 30:26
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter--like the light of seven days--on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.

Isaiah 52:12
For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

Isaiah 53:5
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 58:11
The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,


Treasury of Scripture

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

have

Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isaiah 43:24,25
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities…

Isaiah 48:8-11
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb…

will heal

Jeremiah 3:22
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Jeremiah 33:6
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

will lead

Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Psalm 23:2
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

restore

Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isaiah 12:1
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Isaiah 61:2,3
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; …

to his

Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.

Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

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Isaiah 57
1. The blessed death of the righteous
3. God reproves the People for their idolatry
13. He gives promises of mercy to the penitent














(18) I have seen his ways . . .--The words have been interpreted: (1) of the evil ways described in the previous verse; (2) of the way of repentance into which Israel had been led by chastisement. (1) seems most in harmony with the context. The paths had been rough and thorny, but Jehovah presents Himself as the Healer to those who had been wounded by them, and leads them into a better way. The "mourners" are those who have been touched as with the "godly sorrow" of 2Corinthians 7:10-11.

Verse 18. - I have seen his ways, and will heal him. God had seen the wanderings of his people in perverse ways, and his heart had been touched with pity thereat. The good Shepherd follows and recalls the wanderers of the flock. When they have suffered hurt he "heals" them. He is willing to "lead" them also - to go before them, and show them the way that they should walk in (Isaiah 49:10; Ezekiel 34:11-16), and "restore comforts" to them, especially to such of them as have begun to "mourn" over their perversity.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I have seen
רָאִ֖יתִי (rā·’î·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

his ways,
דְּרָכָ֥יו (də·rā·ḵāw)
Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

but I will heal him;
וְאֶרְפָּאֵ֑הוּ (wə·’er·pā·’ê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7495: To mend, to cure

I will guide him
וְאַנְחֵ֕הוּ (wə·’an·ḥê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5148: To guide, to transport

and restore
וַאֲשַׁלֵּ֧ם (wa·’ă·šal·lêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate

comfort
נִֽחֻמִ֛ים (ni·ḥu·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5150: Comfort, compassion

to him
ל֖וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

and his mourners,
וְלַאֲבֵלָֽיו׃ (wə·la·’ă·ḇê·lāw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 57: Lamenting


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