Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
- BSB Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil 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 1:9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 2 Cor 10:5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
- Ps 106:43–45Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
- Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- 2 Kgs 14:25–27He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
- Rom 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
- Ps 62:3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
- 2 Kgs 13:23And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
- Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
- Ps 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Acts 4:25Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
- Heb 12:5And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
- Prov 3:11My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
- 2 Kgs 13:5(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
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