Human defiance only enhances your glory, for you use it as a weapon.
Parallel translations
- WEB Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
- KJV Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
- BSB Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
- NKJV Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.
- NASB For the wrath of mankind shall praise You; You will encircle Yourself with a remnant of wrath.
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Quick answer
Even human wrath ends up praising God, and He restrains the remainder of that wrath.
Overview
God so rules over evil that even the fury of His enemies serves His glory and purposes. What He does not turn to praise, He restrains so it cannot exceed His sovereign limits. This assures believers that no hostile rage escapes God's control, supremely shown when the wrath that crucified Christ accomplished salvation.
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- Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
- Acts 4:26–28The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’
- Dan 3:19–20Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
- Matt 24:22Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
- Gen 37:26–28Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
- Acts 12:3–19When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
- Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
- Ps 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
- Exod 15:9–11The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
- Gen 37:18–20They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
- Rev 11:18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
- Exod 9:16–17but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;
- Matt 2:13–16Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
- Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- Gen 50:20As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.
- Ps 104:9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.
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