Isaiah 37:28
26 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
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
- I have known and your sitting down and your going out and your coming in, 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 vet om din sittende, din utgang og din inngang, og din 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
Revelation 2:13
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Read in contextPsalms 139:1–11
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:23–24
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Read in contextProverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Read in contextProverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Read in context