Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
Parallel translations
- WEB Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.
- KJV Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
- NKJV Come, my people, enter your chambers, And shut your doors behind you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, Until the indignation is past.
- NASB ¶Come, my people, enter your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course.
- NLT Go home, my people, and lock your doors! Hide yourselves for a little while until the Lord’s anger has passed.
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Quick answer
God tenderly calls His people to take refuge until His wrath against sin has passed.
Overview
Like Israel sheltering during the Passover judgment, God's people are told to hide briefly until the indignation is over. This shows God's wrath falls on the guilty while He protects His own. It anticipates the gospel refuge found in Christ, in whom believers are safe from the judgment to come.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 24
- Ps 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- Isa 54:7–8“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- Matt 6:6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Ps 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
- Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
- Ps 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- 2 Cor 4:17For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- Ps 32:7You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- Isa 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
- Isa 51:4Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Exod 12:22–23Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
- Ps 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
- Ezek 11:16Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
- Isa 51:16I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
- Ps 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.
- Isa 32:18–19Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.
- Ps 57:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
- Gen 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- Jer 31:14I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
- Gen 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
- Jer 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
- Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
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