Jeremiah 17:12

Jeremiah Appeals to the Lord for Vindication

17:12 Then I said, ¹ 

“Lord, from the very beginning

you have been seated on your glorious throne on high.

You are the place where we can find refuge.

Deuteronomy 26:15

26:15 Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 26:1

Presentation of the First Fruits

26:1 When ²  you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

Deuteronomy 9:3

9:3 Understand today that the Lord your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he ³  has told you.

Deuteronomy 9:2

9:2 They include the Anakites, ⁴  a numerous ⁵  and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses ⁶  I have set before you, you will reflect upon them ⁷  in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Psalms 11:4

11:4 The Lord is in his holy temple; ⁸ 

the Lord’s throne is in heaven. ⁹ 

His eyes ¹⁰  watch; ¹¹ 

his eyes ¹²  examine ¹³  all people. ¹⁴ 

Psalms 58:5

58:5 that does not respond to ¹⁵  the magicians,

or to a skilled snake-charmer.

Psalms 132:14

132:14 He said, ¹⁶  “This will be my resting place forever;

I will live here, for I have chosen it. ¹⁷ 

Zechariah 2:13

2:13 Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere, ¹⁸  for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place. ¹⁹ 

¹ tn The words, “Then I said” are not in the text. They are supplied in the translation for clarity to show the shift in speaker.

² tn Heb “and it will come to pass that.”

³ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style to avoid redundancy.

⁴ sn Anakites. See note on this term in Deut 1:28.

⁵ tn Heb “great and tall.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “strong,” NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

⁶ tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

⁷ tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”

⁸ tn Because of the royal imagery involved here, one could translate “lofty palace.” The Lord’s heavenly temple is in view here (see Mic 1:2-4).

⁹ sn The Lord’s throne is in heaven. The psalmist is confident that the Lord reigns as sovereign king, “keeps an eye on” all people, and responds in a just manner to the godly and wicked.

¹⁰ sn His eyes. The anthropomorphic language draws attention to God’s awareness of and interest in the situation on earth. Though the enemies are hidden by the darkness (v. 2), the Lord sees all.

¹¹ tn The two Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this verse describe the Lord’s characteristic activity.

¹² tn Heb “eyelids.”

¹³ tn For other uses of the verb in this sense, see Job 7:18; Pss 7:9; 26:2; 139:23.

¹⁴ tn Heb “test the sons of men.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “does not listen to the voice of.”

¹⁶ tn The words “he said” are added in the translation to clarify that what follows are the Lord’s words.

¹⁷ tn Heb “for I desired it.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “all flesh”; NAB, NIV “all mankind.”

¹⁹ sn The sense here is that God in heaven is about to undertake an occupation of his earthly realm (v. 12) by restoring his people to the promised land.