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The LORD Will Not Forget His People

Psalms 94:7

In 11 translations

BSB
They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
KJV
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
WEB
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
ASV
And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
LSV
And they say, “YAH does not see, || And the God of Jacob does not consider.”
YLT
And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
DBY
And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].Elohim
DRC93:7
And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
GNV
Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither will the God of Iaakob regard it.
JPS
And they say: 'The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob give heed.'
LXXE93:7
And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַ֭יֹּ֣אמְרוּ לֹ֣א יִרְאֶה־יָּ֑הּ וְלֹא־יָ֝בִ֗ין אֱלֹהֵ֥י יַעֲקֹֽב׃
LXX-Br93:7
Καὶ εἶπαν, οὐκ ὄψεται Κύριος, οὐδὲ συνήσει ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ Ἰακώβ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Luke 18:3–4And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,
  • Psalms 10:11–13He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.” Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless. Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never…
  • Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
  • Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the…
  • Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
  • Job 22:12–13Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are! Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
  • Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
  • Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

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