Scripture Folios
He Restores My Soul
Genesis 50:20 As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people. Chapter Related Ruth 4:15 “He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” Chapter Related Job 42:10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions. Chapter Related Psalm 23:3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name. Chapter Related Psalm 126:1 When the Lord restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers. Chapter Related Jeremiah 30:17 “But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord , because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.” Chapter Related
A Gateway of Hope
Hosea 2:15 There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. Chapter Related Joel 2:25–26 I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you. You will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame. Chapter Related Amos 9:14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. Chapter Related Zechariah 9:12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double. Chapter Related Ezekiel 36:35 Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’ Chapter Related Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. Chapter Related
I Am About to Do Something New
Isaiah 43:18–19 “Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old. Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.” Chapter Related Isaiah 65:17–19 For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. Chapter Related Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them. Chapter Related Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is full of water. Chapter Related Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the Lord has spoken. Chapter Related
The Restoration of All Things
Malachi 4:5–6 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the Lord . And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.” Chapter Related Matthew 17:11 Jesus replied, “Elijah does indeed come, and he will restore all things.” Chapter Related Matthew 19:28 Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” Chapter Related Acts 3:21 Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets. Chapter Related 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! Chapter Related
I Make All Things New
Romans 8:19–21 The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Chapter Related Romans 8:22–23 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time. Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. Chapter Related Ephesians 1:9–10 And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. Chapter Related 2 Peter 3:13 But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. Chapter Related Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. Chapter Related Revelation 21:4–5 “‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.” And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.” Chapter Related
Restoration in the Bible starts with single lives. Joseph tells the brothers who sold him that what they intended for evil, God intended for good. Naomi, who came home empty, holds a grandson the women say will renew her life. Job prays for his friends and the Lord doubles what he had lost. “He restores my soul,” and when the Lord restored the captives of Zion, “we were like dreamers.” The prophets widen it to a people and a land: the years the locusts ate repaid, ruined cities rebuilt, the desolate land become like the garden of Eden, the Valley of Achor made a gateway of hope. Then Isaiah says something larger. Do not dwell on the former things: “Behold, I am about to do something new.” New heavens and a new earth, the wolf living with the lamb, no harm on all his holy mountain, death swallowed up and the tears wiped from every face. Malachi promises an Elijah who will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, Jesus speaks of “the renewal of all things,” and Peter says heaven keeps Jesus until the restoration of all things the prophets announced. It has begun in people already: anyone in Christ is a new creation. Creation groans as in childbirth, waiting to be set free from its bondage to decay, and God’s plan is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. At the end the One seated on the throne says, “Behold, I make all things new,” and tells John to write it down.