It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
Parallel translations
- KJV It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
- BSB It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
- ESV It is time for the LORD to act, for your law has been broken.
- NKJV It is time for You to act, O Lord, For they have regarded Your law as void.
- NASB It is time for the Lord to act, For they have broken Your Law.
- NLT Lord, it is time for you to act, for these evil people have violated your instructions.
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- Jer 8:8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
- Hab 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
- Mal 2:8But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Ps 9:19Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
- Matt 15:6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
- Rom 4:14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
- Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Isa 42:14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
- Ps 102:13You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.
- Gen 22:14Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
- Deut 32:36For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
- Gen 22:10–11Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
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