When they had pasture, they were filled; They were filled and their heart was exalted; Therefore they forgot 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.
- KJV According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they 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.
- 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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Cross-references · 12
- Deut 32:13–15He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
- Deut 8:12–14lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;
- Neh 9:35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them. They did not turn from their wicked works.
- Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
- Deut 6:10–12It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
- Deut 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
- Neh 9:25–26They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
- Hos 8:4They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
- Jer 2:31–32Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’
- Hos 10:1Israel is a luxuriant vine that produces his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
- Hos 2:13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
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