Now the Lord gave me knowledge of it, and I know it; for You showed me their doings.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their doings.
- KJV And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.
- BSB And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
- NASB ¶Moreover, the Lord made it known to me and I knew it; Then You showed me their deeds.
- NLT Then the Lord told me about the plots my enemies were making against me.
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Quick answer
God revealed to Jeremiah a plot against his life that he had not known about.
Overview
Here the focus shifts to a conspiracy against the prophet himself, which God graciously uncovers. This begins one of Jeremiah's 'confessions,' personal laments revealing the cost of faithful ministry. Jeremiah's suffering as God's rejected messenger foreshadows Christ, who was likewise plotted against by His own people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Kgs 6:9–10The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you not pass this place; for the Syrians are coming down there.”
- 1 Sam 23:11–12Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” Yahweh said, “He will come down.”
- Ezek 8:6–18He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
- Jer 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
- 2 Kgs 6:14–20Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.
- Rom 3:7For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
- Matt 21:3If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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