And the rebels have gone deep in depravity, But I will discipline all of them.
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.
- BSB The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I will chastise them all.
- NKJV The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter, Though I rebuke them all.
- 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 deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
- Hos 9:15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
- Hos 6:9As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.
- Amos 4:6–12“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 64:3–6who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
- Luke 22:2–5The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.
- Jer 11:18–19Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.
- Hos 4:2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
- Jer 6:28They are all grievous rebels, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron: they all of them deal corruptly.
- Hos 6:5Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
- Acts 23:12–15When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
- Ps 140:1–5For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;
- Zeph 3:1–2Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
- Isa 1:5Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
- Jer 25:3–7From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.
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