Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!
Parallel translations
- WEB “Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
- KJV Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
- NKJV “Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors.
- NASB ¶“Remember this, and be assured; Recall it to mind, you wrongdoers.
- NLT “Do not forget this! Keep it in mind! Remember this, you guilty ones.
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Quick answer
God calls transgressors to remember this and act like rational men. Idolatry is irrational; God summons us to think clearly.
Overview
Yahweh urges his wayward people to take the evidence to heart and 'show yourselves men' — to reason soberly rather than persist in folly. Faith here is not blind; it weighs the manifest contrast between dead idols and the living God. The call to remember and consider is a perennial summons away from sin toward truth.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 135:18Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Ps 115:8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Isa 47:7You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
- Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Isa 44:18–21They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
- Deut 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
- Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Eph 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
- Jer 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
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