It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
Parallel translations
- KJV It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
- BSB Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
- NKJV It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing this day.”
- NASB Perhaps the Lord will look on my misery and return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”
- NLT And perhaps the Lord will see that I am being wronged and will bless me because of these curses today.”
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- Heb 12:10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
- Deut 23:5Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
- Matt 5:11–12“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- Rom 8:28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
- Exod 2:24–25God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Ps 25:18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- Gen 29:32–33Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”
- 2 Th 1:7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
- 1 Sam 1:11She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”
- 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- Exod 3:7–8Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
- Isa 27:7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
- 1 Pet 4:12–19Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
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