Isaiæ 22:16

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Quid tu hic, aut quasi quis hic ? quia excidisti tibi hic sepulchrum, excidisti in excelso memoriale diligenter, in petra tabernaculum tibi.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Judicavit causam pauperis et egeni in bonum suum:
numquid non ideo quia cognovit me? dicit Dominus.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Iudicavit causam pauperis et egeni, tunc bene. "Numquid non hoc est nosse me?", dicit Dominus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

judged: Jeremiah 5:28, Job 29:12-17, Psalms 72:1-4, Psalms 72:12, Psalms 72:13, Psalms 82:3, Psalms 82:4, Psalms 109:31, Proverbs 24:11, Proverbs 24:12, Isaiah 1:17

was not: Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 9:16, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 31:34, 1 Samuel 2:2, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Psalms 9:10, John 8:19, John 8:54, John 8:55, John 16:3, John 17:3, John 17:6, Titus 1:16, 1 John 2:3, 1 John 2:4

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:17 - fear Judges 2:10 - knew not Ruth 3:1 - may be 1 Samuel 2:12 - knew 2 Samuel 8:15 - David executed 2 Kings 8:3 - General 2 Kings 22:20 - gathered Psalms 36:10 - that Psalms 58:2 - in heart Psalms 106:3 - keep Psalms 140:12 - the Lord Proverbs 1:13 - General Proverbs 29:14 - king Proverbs 31:9 - General Jeremiah 7:6 - oppress Ezekiel 18:7 - hath spoiled Ezekiel 18:8 - hath executed Ezekiel 18:17 - hath taken Hosea 5:4 - and Hosea 6:6 - the Zephaniah 2:3 - all Matthew 23:23 - the weightier Luke 18:2 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He judged the cause of the poor and needy,.... Who could not defend themselves against the rich and the mighty; he took their cause in hand, and, having heard it, determined it in their favour, and did them justice, as princes and civil magistrates ought to do:

then [it was] well [with him]; this is repeated, not only to show the certainty of it, but that it might be observed, and his example followed:

[was] not this to know me? saith the Lord; it is not by words only, but by deeds, that men show that they know the Lord; for some in words profess to know him, who in works deny him; when princes do the duty of their office, they thereby declare that they know and own the Lord, by, and under whom, they reign; that they have the fear of him before their eyes; this is a practical knowledge of him, and is well pleasing to him. The Targum is,

"is not this the knowledge with which I am well pleased? saith the Lord.''