“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you will devise a wicked scheme.
Parallel translations
- WEB Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall happen in that day, that things shall come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
- KJV Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
- BSB This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
- NKJV ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:
- NASB ‘This is what the Lord God says: “It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan,
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Quick answer
God foretells that evil schemes will arise in Gog's mind. The enemy's wicked plan originates in his own heart.
Overview
God reveals that Gog will devise an evil plot against the peaceful land. The enemy is morally responsible for his greed and malice, even as God sovereignly oversees events. This holds together human accountability and divine sovereignty, a tension Scripture maintains and which finds its deepest expression at the cross.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
- Mic 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
- Prov 12:2A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.
- Isa 10:7However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
- Acts 5:9But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
- Acts 5:3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
- Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- Ps 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
- Ps 83:3–4They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
- Prov 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
- John 13:2During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
- Prov 19:21There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
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