According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Parallel translations
- WEB According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
- BSB I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
- NKJV According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them.” ’
- NASB In accordance with their uncleanness and their offenses I dealt with them, and I hid My face from them.” ’ ”
- NLT I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.
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God dealt with Israel according to their uncleanness and hid His face from them. The exile was a fitting response to their sin.
Overview
The Lord reaffirms that He treated Israel according to their uncleanness and transgressions, hiding His face from them. The repetition underscores that judgment was just and deserved, not arbitrary. Yet this candid acknowledgment of sin sets the stage for the mercy announced in the following verses, displaying the same pattern of righteous judgment and free grace that the gospel proclaims in Christ.
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- Ezek 36:19And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
- Jer 2:17Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
- Jer 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
- Jer 4:18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
- 2 Kgs 17:7–23For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
- Jer 5:25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
- Isa 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
- Isa 1:20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
- Isa 59:17–18For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
- Lev 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
- Dan 9:5–10We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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