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Isaiah 55:11

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.

KJV

sic erit verbum meum quod egredietur de ore meo ; non revertetur ad me vacuum, sed faciet quæcumque volui, et prosperabitur in his ad quæ misi illud.

Vulgate

οὕτως ἔσται τὸ ῥῆμά μου ὃ ἐὰν ἐξέλθῃ ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου, οὐ μὴ ἀποστραφῇ ἕως ἂν τελεσθῇ ὅσα ἠθέλησα, καὶ εὐοδώσω τὰς ὁδούς σου καὶ τὰ ἐντάλματά μου.

LXX

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.

ASV

כֵּ֣ן יִֽהְיֶ֤ה דְבָרִ/י֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יֵצֵ֣א מִ/פִּ֔/י לֹֽא יָשׁ֥וּב אֵלַ֖/י רֵיקָ֑ם כִּ֤י אִם עָשָׂה֙ אֶת אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָפַ֔צְתִּי וְ/הִצְלִ֖יחַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר שְׁלַחְתִּֽי/ו

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
הַצְלַ֔ח
htslch
verb · 65×
חָפֵ֥ץ
chpts
verb · 74×
י
y
noun · 496×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
רֵיקָֽם
ryqm
adverb · 16×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. This chapter is a free and universal invitation of the gospel. God offers living water, bread, and wine without money and without price. The everlasting covenant of the sure mercies of David is extended to all peoples. God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts and his ways higher than our ways — the mystery of his grace exc…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:18 — For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
  • 1Cor 3:6 — I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
  • 1Pet 1:23 — Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
  • 1Thess 2:13 — For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which e
  • 1Tim 4:16 — Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
  • Acts 5:14 — And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
  • Acts 19:20 — So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
  • Amos 6:11 — For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
  • Deut 32:2 — My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
  • Eph 1:9 — Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
  • Ezek 12:25 — For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, sait
  • Ezek 21:5 — That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
  • Ezek 24:14 — I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judg
  • Heb 4:12 — For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoug
  • Heb 6:7 — For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
  • Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
  • Isa 32:15 — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
  • Isa 44:26 — That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise
  • Isa 45:23 — I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
  • Isa 45:23 — I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
  • Isa 46:10 — Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
  • Isa 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall
  • Isa 54:9 — For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
  • Jas 1:18 — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
  • Jer 23:20 — The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
  • John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Luke 8:11 — Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
  • Matt 24:35 — Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Matt 24:35 — Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Phil 4:7 — And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 3:3 — For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
  • Rom 4:14 — For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
  • Rom 9:6 — Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
  • Rom 10:17 — So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.