Isaiah 37:28

THE MESSAGE

"‘I know all about your pretentious poses, your officious comings and goings, and, yes, the tantrums you throw against me. Because of all your wild raging against me, your unbridled arrogance that I keep hearing of, I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I'll show you who's boss. I'll turn you around and take you back to where you came from.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But I know your sitting down,your going out and your coming in,and your raging against me.

Hebrew Names Version
But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

King James Version
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

English Standard Version
"‘I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

New American Standard Bible
"But I know your sitting down, Your going out, your coming in, And your raging against Me.

New Century Version
"‘I know when you rest, when you come and go, and how you rage against me.

Amplified Bible
"But I know your sitting down And your going out and your coming in [every detail of your life], And your raging against Me.

World English Bible
But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy fury against me.

Legacy Standard Bible
But I know your sitting downAnd your going out and your coming inAnd your raging against Me.

Berean Standard Bible
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Contemporary English Version
I know all about you, even how fiercely angry you are with me.

Complete Jewish Bible
" ‘But I know when you sit, when you leave, when you enter — and when you rage against me.

Darby Translation
But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

Easy-to-Read Version
I know all about your battles; I know when you rested, when you went out to war, and when you came home. I also know when you got upset at me.

George Lamsa Translation
I know your conduct and your going out and your coming in and your daring threat in my presence.

Good News Translation
"But I know everything about you, what you do and where you go. I know how you rage against me.

Lexham English Bible
And I know your sitting down and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.

Literal Translation
But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against Me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I knowe thy wayes, thy goinge forth & thy comynge home, yee & thy madnesse agaynst me.

American Standard Version
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

Bible in Basic English
But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against Me.

King James Version (1611)
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy comming in, and thy rage against me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I knowe thy wayes, thy going foorth, and thy commyng home, yea and thy madnesse agaynst me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But now I know thy rest, and thy going out, and thy coming in.

English Revised Version
But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y knew thi dwellyng, and thi goyng out, and thin entryng, and thi woodnesse ayens me.

Update Bible Version
But I know your rising up and your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

New English Translation
I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

New King James Version
"But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me.

New Living Translation
"But I know you well— where you stay and when you come and go. I know the way you have raged against me.

New Life Bible
But I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your anger against Me.

New Revised Standard
"I know your rising up and your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howbeit, thine abode and thy coming out and thy going in, I know, - and thy raging against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I know thy dwelling, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

Revised Standard Version
'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

Young's Literal Translation
And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But I know your sitting down And your going out and your coming in And your raging against Me.

Contextual Overview

²¹Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this word to Hezekiah: " God 's Message, the God of Israel: Because you brought King Sennacherib of Assyria to me in prayer, here is my answer, God 's answer: "‘She has no use for you, Sennacherib, nothing but contempt, this virgin daughter Zion. She spits at you and turns on her heel, this daughter Jerusalem. "‘Who do you think you've been mocking and reviling all these years? Who do you think you've been jeering and treating with such utter contempt All these years? The Holy of Israel! You've used your servants to mock the Master. You've bragged, "With my fleet of chariots I've gone to the highest mountain ranges, penetrated the far reaches of Lebanon, Chopped down its giant cedars, its finest cypresses. I conquered its highest peak, explored its deepest forest. I dug wells and drank my fill. I emptied the famous rivers of Egypt with one kick of my foot. ²⁶"‘Haven't you gotten the news that I've been behind this all along? This is a longstanding plan of mine and I'm just now making it happen, using you to devastate strong cities, turning them into piles of rubble and leaving their citizens helpless, bewildered, and confused, drooping like unwatered plants, stunted like withered seedlings. ²⁸"‘I know all about your pretentious poses, your officious comings and goings, and, yes, the tantrums you throw against me. Because of all your wild raging against me, your unbridled arrogance that I keep hearing of, I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I'll show you who's boss. I'll turn you around and take you back to where you came from. ³⁰"‘And this, Hezekiah, will be your confirming sign: This year's crops will be slim pickings, and next year it won't be much better. But in three years, farming will be back to normal, with regular sowing and reaping, planting and harvesting. What's left of the people of Judah will put down roots and make a new start. The people left in Jerusalem will get moving again. Mount Zion survivors will take hold again. The zeal of God -of-the-Angel-Armies will do all this.' ³³"Finally, this is God 's verdict on the king of Assyria: "‘Don't worry, he won't enter this city, won't let loose a single arrow, Won't brandish so much as one shield, let alone build a siege ramp against it. He'll go back the same way he came. He won't set a foot in this city. God 's Decree. I've got my hand on this city to save it, Save it for my very own sake, but also for the sake of my David dynasty.'" ³⁶Then the Angel of God arrived and struck the Assyrian camp—185,000 Assyrians died. By the time the sun came up, they were all dead—an army of corpses! Sennacherib, king of Assyria, got out of there fast, back home to Nineveh. As he was worshiping in the sanctuary of his god Nisroch, he was murdered by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer. They escaped to the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon became the next king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I know: Psalms 139:2-11, Proverbs 5:21, Proverbs 15:3, Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 23:24, Revelation 2:13

abode: or sitting

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:27 - lest their 1 Samuel 17:36 - seeing 1 Samuel 17:45 - defied 2 Samuel 3:25 - and to know 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine 2 Kings 19:27 - thy going out 2 Chronicles 32:17 - to rail Psalms 66:7 - let Psalms 129:5 - be confounded Psalms 139:20 - for they speak Isaiah 36:10 - General Isaiah 52:5 - my name Isaiah 66:18 - I know Jeremiah 48:30 - know

Cross-References

Genesis 37:1
Meanwhile Jacob had settled down where his father had lived, the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:2
This is the story of Jacob. The story continues with Joseph, seventeen years old at the time, helping out his brothers in herding the flocks. These were his half brothers actually, the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah. And Joseph brought his father bad reports on them.

Genesis 37:3
Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons because he was the child of his old age. And he made him an elaborately embroidered coat. When his brothers realized that their father loved him more than them, they grew to hate him—they wouldn't even speak to him.

Genesis 37:5
Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said, "Listen to this dream I had. We were all out in the field gathering bundles of wheat. All of a sudden my bundle stood straight up and your bundles circled around it and bowed down to mine."

Genesis 37:8
His brothers said, "So! You're going to rule us? You're going to boss us around?" And they hated him more than ever because of his dreams and the way he talked.

Genesis 37:9
He had another dream and told this one also to his brothers: "I dreamed another dream—the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed down to me!"

Genesis 37:12
His brothers had gone off to Shechem where they were pasturing their father's flocks. Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers are with flocks in Shechem. Come, I want to send you to them." Joseph said, "I'm ready."

Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat their supper. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites on their way from Gilead, their camels loaded with spices, ointments, and perfumes to sell in Egypt. Judah said, "Brothers, what are we going to get out of killing our brother and concealing the evidence? Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let's not kill him—he is, after all, our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.

Genesis 37:36
In Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's officials, manager of his household affairs.

Exodus 2:16
The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, filling the troughs and watering their father's sheep. When some shepherds came and chased the girls off, Moses came to their rescue and helped them water their sheep.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,.... Where he dwelt, what he did at home, his secret councils, cabals, contrivances, schemes and plans for the compassing of his ends, the subduing of kingdoms, and setting up an universal monarchy; and his going out of Babylon, his marches, and counter marches, and his entrance into the land of Judea; there was not a motion made, or a step taken in the cabinet or camp, but what were known to the Lord; so the Targum,

"thy sitting in council, and thy going out abroad to make war, and thy coming into the land of Israel, are manifest before me:''

and thy rage against me; against his people, against the city that was called by his name, against the temple where he was worshipped, particularly against his servant Hezekiah, because he would not immediately deliver up the city to him. The Targum and Syriac versions render it, "before me"; and then the meaning is, "thy rage", wrath and fury, "is before me": or manifest to me; and which he could restrain at pleasure, as he promises to do in the next verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But 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; Psalms 121:8). God here says that he knew the place where he dwelt, and he was able to return him again to it Isaiah 37:29.

And thy rage against me - (See Isaiah 37:4).