Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
- KJV Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
- NKJV Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me;
- NASB Although I trained and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me.
- NLT I trained them and made them strong, yet now they plot evil against me.
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Quick answer
Though God trained and strengthened His people, they devise evil against Him.
Overview
The LORD recalls how He disciplined and empowered Israel like a father strengthening a child's arms, only to be repaid with plotting against Him. Their ingratitude turns God's good gifts into instruments of rebellion. This betrayal of grace underscores the depth of human sin and the patience of a God who keeps reaching out to an unfaithful people.
Cross-references & the web
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- Nah 1:9Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- 2 Cor 10:5We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
- Ps 106:43–45Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
- Job 5:17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- 2 Kgs 14:25–27This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
- Rom 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Ps 62:3How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
- 2 Kgs 13:23But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
- Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Acts 4:25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Heb 12:5And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
- Prov 3:11My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- 2 Kgs 13:5So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.
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