“Do not forget this! Keep it in mind! Remember this, you guilty ones.
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.
- 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.
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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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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 135:18Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
- Ps 115:8Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Isa 47:7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
- Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- Isa 44:18–21They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
- Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Luke 15:17But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
- 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
- Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
- Jer 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
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