For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Parallel translations
- WEB For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
- BSB For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- NKJV For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.
- NASB For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their wrongdoing concealed from My eyes.
- NLT I am watching them closely, and I see every sin. They cannot hope to hide from me.
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Quick answer
God's eyes are on all their ways; nothing they do and no iniquity is hidden from His sight. He sees and will judge every sin, however concealed.
Overview
This declaration of God's complete knowledge undergirds the justice of His judgment; nothing escapes His all-seeing eyes. The truth that sin cannot be hidden from God confronts every false hope of secret wrongdoing. It calls sinners to honest confession rather than concealment, and points to the mercy of the gospel, where forgiven sin is covered by the blood of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
- Jer 23:24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
- Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
- Ps 90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- Job 34:21–22For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
- Heb 4:13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Jer 32:19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- 2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
- Ps 139:3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
- Ezek 9:9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
- Isa 29:15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Luke 12:1–2In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Ezek 8:12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
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