Now whenever it fits my plan, I will attack you, too. I will call out the armies of the nations to punish you for your multiplied sins.
Parallel translations
- WEB When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the nations will be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
- KJV It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
- BSB I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.
- NKJV When it is My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gathered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.
- NASB When it is My desire, I will discipline them; And the peoples will be gathered against them When they are bound for their double guilt.
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God declares that when he chooses, he will discipline Israel, gathering nations against them for their double sin. It shows that persistent rebellion brings God's measured judgment.
Overview
Israel's "two transgressions" likely refer to their compounded apostasy, such as the calf-worship at Bethel and Dan or their broken covenant joined to idolatry. God sovereignly times this chastening and uses foreign nations, especially Assyria, as his instrument. The verse underscores that judgment is not random but a just response to sin, even as it remains within God's controlling hand.
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- Ezek 5:13“‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
- Jer 16:16“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
- Hos 4:9It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
- Hos 8:10But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
- Jer 15:6You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward: therefore I have stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
- Hos 8:1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
- Zech 14:2–3For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
- Jer 21:4‘Yahweh, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.
- Ezek 16:37therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
- Ezek 23:46“For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
- Ezek 23:9“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
- Deut 28:63It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Ezek 16:42So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
- Mic 4:10–13Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
- Isa 1:24Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;
- Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
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