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Isa. 57:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holyo place, with him alsop that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to reviveq the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

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Zech. 2:13• ¹³Let all flesh be silent before Jehovah; for he is risen up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)

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Isa. 66:1‑2• ¹Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest?
²Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word. (Isa. 66:1‑2)

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Psa. 34:18• ¹⁸Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit. (Psa. 34:18)

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Psa. 138:6• ⁶For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off. (Psa. 138:6)

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Matt. 5:4• ⁴Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:4)

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the high.

Isa. 6:1• ¹In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. (Isa. 6:1)

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Psa. 83:18• ¹⁸That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth. (Psa. 83:18)

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Psa. 97:9• ⁹For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above all gods. (Psa. 97:9)

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Psa. 138:6• ⁶For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off. (Psa. 138:6)

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Dan. 4:17,24‑25,34• ¹⁷This sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the word of the holy ones: that the living may know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
²⁴this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which cometh upon my lord the king:
²⁵They shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and thou shalt be bathed with the dew of heaven; and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
³⁴And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto the heavens, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. (Dan. 4:17,24‑25,34)

that inhabiteth.

Isa. 40:28• ²⁸Dost thou not know, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not nor tireth? There is no searching of his understanding. (Isa. 40:28)

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Gen. 21:33• ³³And Abraham planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal *God. (Gen. 21:33)

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Deut. 33:27• ²⁷Thy refuge is the God of old, And underneath are the eternal arms; And he shall drive out the enemy from before thee, And shall say, Destroy them! (Deut. 33:27)

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Psa. 90:2• ²Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art *God. (Psa. 90:2)

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Psa. 93:2• ²Thy throne is established of old; thou art from eternity. (Psa. 93:2)

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Prov. 8:23• ²³I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was. (Prov. 8:23)

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Jer. 10:10• ¹⁰But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation. (Jer. 10:10)

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Mic. 5:2• ²(And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me who is to be Ruler in Israel: whose goings forth are from of old, from the days of eternity.) (Mic. 5:2)

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Rom. 1:20• ²⁰--for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity,--so as to render them inexcusable. (Rom. 1:20)

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1 Tim. 1:17• ¹⁷Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen. (1 Tim. 1:17)

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Heb. 9:14• ¹⁴how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God? (Heb. 9:14)

whose.

Isa. 6:3• ³And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory! (Isa. 6:3)

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Ex. 15:11• ¹¹Who is like unto thee, Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like unto thee, glorifying thyself in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? (Ex. 15:11)

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1 Sam. 2:2• ²There is none holy as Jehovah, for there is none beside thee, neither is there any rock like our God. (1 Sam. 2:2)

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Job 6:10• ¹⁰Then should I yet have comfort; and in the pain which spareth not I would rejoice that I have not denied the words of the Holy One. (Job 6:10)

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Psa. 99:3• ³They shall praise thy great and terrible name,--it is holy!-- (Psa. 99:3)

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Psa. 111:9• ⁹He sent deliverance unto his people; he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and terrible is his name. (Psa. 111:9)

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Luke 1:49• ⁴⁹For the Mighty One has done to me great things, and holy is his name; (Luke 1:49)

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Acts 3:14• ¹⁴But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man that was a murderer should be granted to you; (Acts 3:14)

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Rev. 3:7• ⁷And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open: (Rev. 3:7)

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Rev. 4:8• ⁸And the four living creatures, each one of them having respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes; and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. (Rev. 4:8)

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Rev. 15:4• ⁴Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and do homage before thee; for thy righteousnesses have been made manifest. (Rev. 15:4)

I dwell.

Isa. 66:1• ¹Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest? (Isa. 66:1)

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1 Kings 8:27• ²⁷But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built! (1 Kings 8:27)

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Psa. 68:4‑5• ⁴Sing unto God, sing forth his name; cast up a way for him that rideth in the deserts: his name is Jah; and rejoice before him.
⁵A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. (Psa. 68:4‑5)

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Psa. 113:4‑6• ⁴Jehovah is high above all nations, his glory above the heavens.
⁵Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;
⁶Who humbleth himself to look on the heavens and on the earth? (Psa. 113:4‑6)

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Psa. 115:3• ³But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he pleased. (Psa. 115:3)

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Psa. 123:1• ¹A Song of degrees. Unto thee do I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. (Psa. 123:1)

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Zech. 2:13• ¹³Let all flesh be silent before Jehovah; for he is risen up out of his holy habitation. (Zech. 2:13)

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Matt. 6:9• ⁹Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified, (Matt. 6:9)

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1 Tim. 6:16• ¹⁶who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honour and eternal might. Amen. (1 Tim. 6:16)

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Isa. 66:1‑2• ¹Thus saith Jehovah: The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what is the house that ye will build unto me? and what is the place of my rest?
²Even all these things hath my hand made, and all these things have been, saith Jehovah. But to this man will I look: to the afflicted and contrite in spirit, and who trembleth at my word. (Isa. 66:1‑2)

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2 Chron. 33:12‑13• ¹²And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
¹³and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God. (2 Chron. 33:12‑13)

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2 Chron. 34:27• ²⁷Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah. (2 Chron. 34:27)

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Psa. 34:18• ¹⁸Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit. (Psa. 34:18)

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Psa. 51:17• ¹⁷The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psa. 51:17)

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Psa. 138:6• ⁶For Jehovah is high; but he looketh upon the lowly, and the proud he knoweth afar off. (Psa. 138:6)

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Ezek. 9:4• ⁴and Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof. (Ezek. 9:4)

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Ezek. 16:63• ⁶³that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 16:63)

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Matt. 5:3‑4• ³Blessed are the poor in spirit, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens.
⁴Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:3‑4)

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James 4:6• ⁶But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against the proud, but gives grace to the lowly. (James 4:6)

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1 Peter 5:5• ⁵Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder, and all of you bind on humility towards one another; for God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble gives grace. (1 Peter 5:5)

to revive the spirit.

Isa. 61:1‑3• ¹The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;
²to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
³to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, that beauty should be given unto them instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness: that they might be called terebinths of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified. (Isa. 61:1‑3)

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Psa. 147:3• ³He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. (Psa. 147:3)

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Matt. 5:4• ⁴Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:4)

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Luke 4:18• ¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered, (Luke 4:18)

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Luke 15:20‑24• ²⁰And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.
²¹And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.
²²But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in it, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;
²³and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:
²⁴for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry. (Luke 15:20‑24)

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2 Cor. 1:4• ⁴who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God. (2 Cor. 1:4)

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2 Cor. 2:7• ⁷so that on the contrary ye should rather shew grace and encourage, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with excessive grief. (2 Cor. 2:7)

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2 Cor. 7:6• ⁶But he who encourages those that are brought low, even God, encouraged us by the coming of Titus; (2 Cor. 7:6)

• The right spirit is indicated in verse 15. Jehovah presents Himself in a light calculated to produce that right spirit in those that approach Him. He is high and elevated in the depths of space, far above this little world, He inhabits eternity, not restricted by the times and seasons that confine us. His name is “Holy”. Are we sensible of this? If so, we shall at once be contrite as regards the past, and humble in the present. (“Isaiah 57” by F.B. Hole)

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