Isaiah 27:11

27:11 When its branches get brittle,¹ they break;

women come and use them for kindling.²

For these people lack understanding,³

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger⁴ will rage⁵ against that man; all the curses⁶ written in this scroll will fall upon him⁷ and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.⁸

Job 27:22

27:22 It hurls itself against him without pity⁹

as he flees headlong from its power.

Jeremiah 13:14

13:14 And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike.¹⁰ I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’¹¹ says the Lord.”

Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare¹² you.

Ezekiel 7:4

7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare¹³ you.¹⁴ For I will hold you responsible for your behavior,¹⁵ and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices.¹⁶ Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 7:9

7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare¹⁷ you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable,¹⁸ and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you.¹⁹

Ezekiel 8:18

8:18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare²⁰ them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10

9:10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare²¹ them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”²²

Ezekiel 24:14

24:14 “‘I the Lord have spoken; judgment²³ is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry!²⁴ I will judge you²⁵ according to your conduct²⁶ and your deeds, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Romans 8:32

8:32 Indeed, he who²⁷ did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

Romans 11:21

11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, perhaps he will not spare you.

Romans 11:2

11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

Romans 2:4-5

2:4 Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know²⁸ that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? 2:5 But because of your stubbornness²⁹ and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!³⁰

¹tn Heb “are dry” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV).

²tn Heb “women come [and] light it.” The city is likened to a dead tree with dried up branches that is only good for firewood.

³tn Heb “for not a people of understanding [is] he.”

⁴tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

⁵tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

⁶tn Heb “the entire oath.”

⁷tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

⁸tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

⁷tn The verb is once again functioning in an adverbial sense. The text has “it hurls itself against him and shows no mercy.”

¹⁰tn Or “children along with their parents”; Heb “fathers and children together.”

¹¹tn Heb “I will not show…so as not to destroy them.”

¹³tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

¹⁶tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

¹⁷tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

¹⁸tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”

¹⁹tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

¹⁹tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

²⁰tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”

²¹tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.

²²tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

²⁵tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

²⁶tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31.

²⁸tn Heb “it”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁹tn Or perhaps, “change my mind.”

³⁰tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and the major ancient versions read a first person verb here. Most Hebrew mss read have an indefinite subject, “they will judge you,” which could be translated, “you will be judged.”

³¹tn Heb “ways.”

³¹tn Grk “[he] who.” The relative clause continues the question of v. 31 in a way that is awkward in English. The force of v. 32 is thus: “who indeed did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – How will he not also with him give us all things?”

³⁴tn Grk “being unaware.”

³⁷tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

³⁸tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”