The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
Parallel translations
- KJV The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
- BSB The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
- ESV The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.
- NKJV “Theiniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
- NASB ¶The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up; His sin is stored up.
- NLT “Ephraim’s guilt has been collected, and his sin has been stored up for punishment.
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Cross-references · 4
- Deut 32:34–35“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
- Job 14:17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
- Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
- Job 21:19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
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