The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.
Parallel translations
- WEB The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.
- KJV And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
- NKJV The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.
- NASB And the rebels have gone deep in depravity, But I will discipline all of them.
- NLT You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.
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Quick answer
The rebels are deeply immersed in their sin, and God declares He will discipline them all. None will escape His corrective hand.
Overview
This verse is textually difficult, but its sense is that the rebellious have plunged deep into wickedness, even to the point of slaughter. God responds by announcing that He will discipline 'all of them,' leaders and people alike. The verse reinforces that no degree of entrenched rebellion is beyond God's notice or His just correction, and that His discipline aims to confront sin rather than ignore it.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Isa 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
- Hos 9:15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
- Hos 6:9Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
- Amos 4:6–12“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Ps 64:3–6who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Luke 22:2–5and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.
- Jer 11:18–19And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
- Hos 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Jer 6:28All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
- Hos 6:5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
- Acts 23:12–15When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- Ps 140:1–5For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
- Zeph 3:1–2Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Jer 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Isa 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
- Jer 5:3O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
- Jer 25:3–7“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
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