Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Parallel translations
- WEB “Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
- BSB “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
- NKJV ‘Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?
- NASB ¶‘Is it not stored up with Me, Sealed up in My treasuries?
- NLT “The Lord says, ‘Am I not storing up these things, sealing them away in my treasury?
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Quick answer
God declares that this is stored up and sealed in His treasuries. It matters because it affirms that God's reckoning of evil is certain and held in reserve.
Overview
The image of sealed treasures conveys that God keeps a sure record, ready to act in due time. Nothing is forgotten or escapes His just accounting. This assurance that God stores up justice anticipates the final judgment, while reminding believers that mercy and recompense alike rest securely in His hands, displayed at the cross of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Job 14:17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
- Hos 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
- Rom 2:5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
- Jer 2:22For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Rev 20:12–13And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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