New King James Version
Isaiah 37:28
28“But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me.
Isaiah 37:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
- New International Version (NIV)“But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“But I know you well— where you stay and when you come and go. I know the way you have raged against me.
Context of Isaiah 37:28
26“Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. 27Therefore their inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as the grass of the field And the green herb, As the grass on the housetops And grain blighted before it is grown. “But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me. 29Because your rage against Me and your tumult Have come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My hook in your nose And My bridle in your lips, And I will turn you back By the way which you came.” ’ 30“This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
Read all of Isaiah 37Isaiah 37:28 word by word
וְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛ וְצֵאתְךָ֥ וּבוֹאֲךָ֖ יָדָ֑עְתִּי וְאֵ֖ת הִֽתְרַגֶּזְךָ֥ אֵלָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 37:28
- Psalms 139:2You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
- Proverbs 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He ponders all his paths.
- Proverbs 15:3The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
- Jeremiah 23:23“Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord, “And not a God afar off?
- Revelation 2:13“I know your works, and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. And you hold fast to My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Commentaries on Isaiah 37:28
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28But I know - The language of God. I am well acquainted with all that pertains to you. You neither go out to war, nor return, nor abide in your capital without my providential direction‘ (see the notes at Isaiah 10:5-7). Thy abode - Margin, Sitting.‘ Among the Hebrews, sitting down, rising up, and going out, were phrases to describe the whole of a man‘s life and actions (compare Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 28:6; 1 Kings 3:7; Psalm 121:8). God here says…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28your raging against Me: Assyria was completely hostile to the Lord, which led to even greater condemnation for them.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. abode--rather, "sitting down" (Psa 139:2). The expressions here describe a man's whole course of life (De 6:7; 28:6; 1Ki 3:7; Psa 121:8). There is also a special reference to Sennacherib's first being at home, then going forth against Judah and Egypt, and raging against Jehovah (Is 37:4).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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