“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,
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“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,
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Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
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Behold, it is written before Me; I will not keep silence, except I have requited, yea, I will requite into their bosom,
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Passages linked to Isaiah 65:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
- Jeremiah 16:18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
- Psalms 50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
- Psalms 79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Isaiah 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.
- Isaiah 64:12 Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?
- Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Joel 3:4 “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
- Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
- Revelation 20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
- Exodus 17:14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
- Deuteronomy 32:34 “Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
- Psalms 56:8 You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
- Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So that the remembrance thereof cannot be forgotten.
So that the remembrance thereof cannot be forgotten.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 65:6 Behold, [it is] written before me: I…
Isa 65:6 Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
Ver. 6. Behold, it is written before me.] Heb., Before my face, as your sins were committed to my face, {Isa 65:3} which, therefore, I shall surely remember and punish.
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But will recompense, even recompense.] Certo, cite, penitus, - surely, severely, suddenly; you may write upon it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They may think that I take no notice of…
They may think that I take no notice of these things, or if I take any notice, I will forget them, or at least not enter into judgment with them for them; but I as certainly know and will remember them, as princes or great men that record things in writing which they would not forget. And they shall know that I know and take notice of and will remember them; for
I will not keep silence; I will not long neglect the punishment of them, though for a while I have delayed it, like a man who bites in his wrath, for some wise reasons which are known unto himself best, Psa 50:21.
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Will recompense into their bosom; my punishment of them shall be severe and certain, but yet it shall be just, but a giving them what is their own, as they are obnoxious to my justice, Deu 7:10; Jer 32:18; like the payment of an ox for an ox, Exo 21:36 (where the same word is used); they have been froward against me and I will show myself froward against them, Psa 18:26.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Behold, it is written before me,.... This account of…
Behold, it is written before me,.... This account of their sins; it was in his sight and constant remembrance, and punishment for them was determined by him, written in the book of his decrees:
I will not keep silence; but threaten with destruction, and not only threaten, but execute; plead against them really, as well as verbally, with sore judgments:
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but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom; full and just recompence of punishment for all their transgressions, as it follows. The Targum is,
"I will recompense to them the vengeance of their sins, and deliver their bodies to the second death.''
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Behold - They may think I take no notice…
Behold - They may think I take no notice of these things; but I will as certainly remember them, as princes or great men that record things in writing which they would not forget.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Behold, it is written before me] Their…
Verse 6. Behold, it is written before me] Their sin is registered in heaven, calling aloud for the punishment due to it.
I will - recompense into their bosom] The bosom is the place where the Asiatics have their pockets, and not in their skirts like the inhabitants of the west. Their loose flowing garments have scarcely any thing analogous to skirts.
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Into their bosom] For על al, ten MSS. and five editions have אל el. So again at the end of this verse, seventeen MSS. and four editions have אל al. - L.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Behold, it is written before me - That is,…
Behold, it is written before me - That is, the crimes of which they had been guilty, or the sentence which would be consequent thereon. The allusion is to the custom of having the decrees of kings recorded in a volume or on a table, and kept in their presence, so that they might be seen and not forgotten. An allusion to this custom of opening the books containing a record of this kind on trials, occurs in Dan 7:10, ‘The judgment was set, and the books were opened.’ So also Rev 20:12, ‘And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.’ So here. An impartial record had been made, and God would recompense them according to their deeds.
I will not keep silence - Nothing shall compel me to desist from declaring a sentence which shall be just and right.
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But will recompense, even recompense - That is, I will certainly requite them. The word is repeated in accordance with the usual manner in Hebrew to denote emphasis.
Into their bosom - (See Psa 79:12; Jer 32:18; Luk 6:38). The word bosom, here refers to a custom among the Orientals of making the bosom or front of their garments large and loose, so that articles could be carried in them, answering the purpose of our pockets (compare Exo 4:6-7; Pro 6:27). The sense here is, that God would abundantly punish them for their sins.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Bosom: good measure, Luke vi. 38. Rewards and punishments…
Bosom: good measure, Luke vi. 38. Rewards and punishments will be eternal.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain written before me--"it is decreed by Me," namely, what…
written before me--"it is decreed by Me," namely, what follows (Job 13:26), [MAURER]; or, their guilt is recorded before Me (compare Dan 7:10; Rev 20:12; Mal 3:16).
into . . . bosom-- (Psa 79:12; Jer 32:18; Luk 6:38). The Orientals used the loose fold of the garment falling on "the bosom" or lap, as a receptacle for carrying things. The sense thus is: I will repay their sin so abundantly that the hand will not be able to receive it; it will need the spacious fold on the bosom to contain it [ROSENMULLER]. Rather it is, "I will repay it to the very person from whom it has emanated." Compare "God did render the evil of the men of Shechem upon their heads" (Jdg 9:57; Psa 7:16) [GESENIUS].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6, 7. Behold — Something very important.
6, 7. Behold — Something very important.
It is written — Or, recorded. Probably for retribution soon to occur. For character as above portrayed shall be visited with deserved decree, or doom. It is poured into their bosom. “Their bosom” may refer to an oriental way of drawing up the loose garment, so as to make a capacious sack around the chest. See Rth_3:15.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6, 7. Sentence is now pronounced on the reprobates,…
6, 7. Sentence is now pronounced on the reprobates, who by their persistent idolatries have served themselves heirs to the guilt of their fathers.
it is written before me] The sins mentioned above stand recorded in the heavenly books, calling constantly for punishment (cf. Jer_17:1). Another interpretation, according to which the subject of the sentence is the Divine decree of judgement, is less acceptable, because the following words can hardly be taken as the contents of such a decree.
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I will not keep silence until I have recompensed] For the construction cf. Gen_32:26; Lev_22:6, &c.
even recompense &c.] and I will recompense into their bosom,—a new sentence, as is shown by the Hebr. pointing of the verb as consec. perf. Cf. Jer_32:18; Psa_79:12.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) It is written before me . . .—The…
(6) It is written before me . . .—The thought is that of the great register, the book of God’s remembrance, in which men’s deeds, good and evil, are ever being recorded. (Comp. Jer_17:1; Psa_56:8; Dan_12:1; Mal_3:16.)
But will recompense . . .—Literally, without recompensing, or, except I recompense. Men took the long-suffering of God as if it indicated forgetfulness (Rom_2:4; 2Pe_3:9). They are told that He will at last requite the impenitent “into their very bosom,” their inmost self, for all the evil they have done.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain It is written before me. The misconduct of his…
It is written before me. The misconduct of his people is "written" in God"s book, which lies open "before him," so that their sin is ever in his sight. (comp. Psa_56:8 Mal_3:16 Rev_20:12) I will not keep silence. (comp. Psa_1:3) "Keeping silence" is a metaphor for complete inaction. But will recompense, etc.; rather, until I have recompensed, yea, recompensed them into their bosoms. (comp. Luk_6:38) Gifts were given and received into the fold of the beged, or cloak, which depended in front of the bosom.
Ver. 6. Men"s sins recorded in God"s book.
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As far back as the time of Moses, God announced through him that men"s sins were "laid up in store with him, and sealed up among his treasures". (Deu_32:34) The later prophets, (Mal_3:16) with the Psalms, (Psa_56:8) and the Revelation of St. John, (Joh_20:12-15) speak of "a book," or "books, of remembrance," which contain the record of human frailty. Jeremiah says, "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond"; (Jer_17:1) and Daniel, like St. John, tells of a time when the judgment will be set, and "the books opened". (Joh_7:10) The heavenly registers record the acts of men, both good and bad; and in one register seem to be written the names of those whom God regards as "living ones". (Isa_4:3) This register is called "the book of life". (Rev_3:5 Rev_13:8 Rev_17:8 Rev_20:12, Rev_20:15) Such are the biblical statements on the subject. The expressions used are doubtless accommodations to human modes of thought, and are not to be taken literally. The great truth, however, which they convey is to be understood in the most absolute literalness. Men"s sins will not be forgotten, even when they are forgiven. They are all registered in God"s memory; and perhaps it may be found that each man"s sins are also registered in some secret place of his own memory, though at present he is unable to recall the greater part of them. All will be taken into consideration at the time of judgment, and all will be set forth in the sight of men and angels. There is nothing "secret" which shall not then be "revealed," or "hid" which shall not be "known." Men will be judged and sentenced "according to their works" (Rev_20:13) to that they have done, whether it be good or evil". (2Co_5:10)
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Yahweh continues speaking about the people of Israel.
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Look, it is written
"Take notice and pay attention"
into their laps
This means God will punish them to the fullest extent. This expression compares Yahweh punishing the people to dumping on their legs as they are sitting. (See: Idiom and Metaphor)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 65:6 my decree is written out: God is fully…
65:6 my decree is written out: God is fully committed to carry out his plan. • The godly had asked whether the Lord would stand silent forever (64:12). God answered that he would not but would deal with the wicked before restoring the righteous remnant.
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