Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.
- BSB Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you 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.
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- Ps 135:18They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
- Ps 115:8They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Isa 47:7And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
- Hag 1:5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
- Isa 44:18–21They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
- Deut 32:29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
- 1 Cor 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
- Hag 1:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
- Eph 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
- Jer 10:8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
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