then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
Parallel translations
- WEB then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
- KJV Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times 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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Quick answer
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.
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- Isa 59:18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
- Jer 21:5And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
- Ezek 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
- Isa 66:15For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isa 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- Ezek 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Ezek 5:13And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
- Nah 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Isa 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
- Nah 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
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