Isaiah 65:6 “Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will re…”

Isaiah 65:6

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

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

World English Bible

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom

American Standard Version

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom,

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, it is written before me: I wil not keepe silence, but will render it and recompense it into their bosome.

Darby Translation

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, it is written before Me: 'I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,

Bible in Basic English

See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,

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Cross references

“it is”

Malachi 3:16 Revelation 20:12 Exodus 17:14 Deuteronomy 32:34 Psalm 56:8

Malachi 3:16 · BSB

At 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 20:12 · BSB

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.

Exodus 17:14 · BSB

Then 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 · BSB

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

Psalm 56:8 · BSB

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

“I will”

Psalm 50:3 Psalm 50:21 Isaiah 42:14 Isaiah 64:12

Psalm 50:3 · BSB

Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.

Psalm 50:21 · BSB

You 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.

Isaiah 42:14 · BSB

“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 64:12 · BSB

After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

“but”

Jeremiah 16:18 Psalm 79:12 Ezekiel 22:31 Joel 3:4 Ezekiel 11:21

Jeremiah 16:18 · BSB

And 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.”

Psalm 79:12 · BSB

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

Ezekiel 22:31 · BSB

So 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 3:4 · BSB

Now 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…

Ezekiel 11:21 · BSB

But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

7both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”

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