Now see how they reward us! For they have come to throw us out of your land, which you gave us as an inheritance.
Parallel translations
- WEB behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
- KJV Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
- BSB See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.
- NKJV here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.
- NASB see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.
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Quick answer
He laments that these nations now seek to drive Judah from the inheritance God gave them.
Overview
The king frames the attack as an assault on God's own gift and possession. By making it God's cause, not merely Judah's, he appeals to the LORD's honor. Prayer is emboldened when we recognize that God's glory is bound up with His people's welfare.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 83:3–12They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
- Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
- Prov 17:13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
- Gen 44:4When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?
- Judg 11:23–24So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
- Ps 7:4if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
- Ps 35:12They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
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