Although I trained and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise 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.
- 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;
- 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.
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- Nah 1:9What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 2 Cor 10:5throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
- Ps 106:43–45He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.
- Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- 2 Kgs 14:25–27He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
- Rom 1:21Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
- Ps 62:3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
- 2 Kgs 13:23But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
- Jer 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
- Ps 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Acts 4:25who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Heb 12:5and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;
- Prov 3:11My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
- 2 Kgs 13:5(Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.
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