Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
- BSB You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
- NKJV Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.”
- NASB And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I Myself have heard it.”
- NLT In saying that, you boasted proudly against me, and I have heard it all!
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Quick answer
Edom magnified itself and multiplied proud words against God, who has heard it all. Arrogant speech against the Lord does not go unanswered.
Overview
Boasting 'against me' shows Edom's hostility was ultimately directed at God, not merely Israel. Their 'multiplied... words' of pride are met with the sobering refrain, 'I have heard it.' God's omniscience makes human boasting futile and self-condemning. Scripture consistently warns that the proud tongue invites God's resistance (Prov. 16:5; James 4:6).
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- Dan 11:36And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
- 1 Sam 2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
- Jer 29:23Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
- Ezek 35:12And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
- Isa 36:20Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
- Eccl 10:14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
- 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
- Isa 37:10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
- Mal 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
- Isa 37:29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Isa 37:23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
- 2 Chr 32:19And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
- Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Rev 13:5–6And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
- 2 Chr 32:15Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
- Ps 73:8–9They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
- Isa 10:13–19For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
- Jude 1:15To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
- Job 34:37For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
- 2 Kgs 19:28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
- Num 14:27How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Exod 16:12I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
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