Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Parallel translations
- KJV Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
- BSB Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
- NKJV Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
- NASB Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not bring about their annihilation in the wilderness.
- NLT Nevertheless, I took pity on them and held back from destroying them in the wilderness.
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- Ezek 11:13When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
- Jer 4:27For Yahweh says, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
- Jer 5:18“But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end with you.
- Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
- 1 Sam 24:10Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
- Neh 9:19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Ps 78:37–38For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
- Ezek 7:2“You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.
- Nah 1:8–9But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
- Ezek 9:10As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
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