According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Parallel translations
- WEB According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- BSB When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
- NKJV When they had pasture, they were filled; They were filled and their heart was exalted; Therefore they forgot Me.
- NASB As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, And as they became satisfied, their heart became proud; Therefore they forgot Me.
- NLT But when you had eaten and were satisfied, you became proud and forgot me.
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Quick answer
Once satisfied and prosperous, Israel grew proud and forgot God. It warns that abundance can lead to pride and spiritual amnesia.
Overview
As God filled them with good things, their hearts became exalted rather than grateful. Forgetting God is the root sin that flows from self-satisfied prosperity. This pattern, warned of in Deuteronomy, shows how blessing untethered from thankful dependence breeds rebellion.
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- Deut 32:13–15He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
- Deut 8:12–14Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
- Neh 9:35For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
- Ps 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
- Deut 6:10–12And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
- Deut 32:18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
- Neh 9:25–26And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
- Hos 8:4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
- Jer 2:31–32O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
- Hos 10:1Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.
- Hos 2:13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
- Isa 17:10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
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