then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- BSB then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- NKJV then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- NASB then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins.
- NLT then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.
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God warns He will oppose Israel in wrath and chastise them sevenfold. The fullest measure of covenant judgment is in view.
Overview
Now God's opposition is described 'in wrath,' marking the most intense phase of discipline. Even here the term 'chastise' retains a corrective aim, however severe. This sobering picture of divine wrath against covenant-breaking magnifies the mercy of Christ, who absorbs that wrath on behalf of His people.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 59:18According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
- Jer 21:5I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.
- Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
- Isa 66:15For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isa 63:3“I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
- Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes — I, Yahweh, have spoken it —
- Ezek 5:13“‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
- Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
- Isa 27:4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
- Nah 1:2Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
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