Isaiah 65:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,”
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“Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, it is written before Me: `I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 65:6 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
- Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
- Psalms 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
- Psalms 56:8You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?
- Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Isaiah 42:14“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
- Isaiah 64:12After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
- Jeremiah 16:18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
- Ezekiel 11:21But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 22:31So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Joel 3:4Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.
- Malachi 3:16At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
- Revelation 20:12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
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