2 Kings 19:27
25 Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
26 Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
28 Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
29 And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- KJV
- But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
- WEB
- But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
- ASV
- But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
- DARBY
- But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me.
- BLB
- And your dwelling place, and Your going out, and your coming in I know—and your raging against Me.
- ÅB
- Enten du sitter eller du går ut og inn, så vet jeg det, og jeg vet at du raser mot meg.
- OTB
- Men Jeg kjenner til din sittende,
Din utgang og din inngang,
Og ditt raseri mot Meg. - B1930
- Enten du sitter eller du går ut og inn, så vet jeg det, og jeg vet at du raser mot mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 23:23–24
“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”
Read in contextIsaiah 37:28–29
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
Read in contextPsalms 121:8
The LORD will watch over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:6
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
Read in contextPsalms 139:1–11
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:19
You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
Read in context