Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.
Parallel translations
- WEB Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
- KJV Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
- NKJV Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and will do it.
- NASB Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong for the days that I will deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken and will act.
- NLT How strong and courageous will you be in my day of reckoning? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I said.
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Quick answer
God asks whether Jerusalem's courage and strength can endure when He comes to deal with her, affirming that He will surely do it. No one can stand against His judgment.
Overview
The rhetorical questions expose the futility of human resistance to God's verdict. His pledge, 'I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it,' guarantees the judgment's certainty. The verse calls hearers to humble themselves before the One whose word never fails.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ezek 21:7And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezek 17:24Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
- Ezek 24:14I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- 1 Cor 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
- Heb 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Isa 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
- Jer 13:21What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?
- Ezek 28:9Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
- 1 Sam 15:29Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- Mark 13:31Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Job 40:9Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
- Isa 31:3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Ezek 5:13And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
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