Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times 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.
- 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.
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- Isa 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
- Jer 21:5And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
- Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
- Isa 66:15For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isa 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
- Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
- Ezek 5:13Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
- Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
- Isa 27:4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
- Nah 1:2God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
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