Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
- BSB You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
- NKJV You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
- NASB You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
- NLT You have seen the vengeful plots my enemies have laid against me.
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Quick answer
God has seen all the schemes and vengeance of his enemies against him.
Overview
The verse affirms that nothing the enemies plot escapes God's notice. Their vengeful devices are fully known to the Lord. This confidence that God sees every wrong frees the believer from anxious self-defense, for vengeance belongs to God (Rom. 12:19; Deut. 32:35).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Jer 11:19–20But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- Lam 3:59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- Ps 10:14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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