Deuteronomy 29:19
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Note Or curse
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Note imagination: or, stubbornness
Note drunkenness…: Heb. the drunken to the thirsty
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- this curse
- Deuteronomy 29:12; Genesis 2:17
- that he bless
- Deuteronomy 17:2; Numbers 15:30, 39; Psalm 10:4–6, 11; Psalm 49:18; Psalm 94:6, 7; Proverbs 29:1; Jeremiah 5:12, 13; Jeremiah 7:3–11; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Jeremiah 44:16, 17, 27; Ezekiel 13:16, 22; Ephesians 5:6
- though I walk
- Numbers 15:30; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Romans 1:21; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Ephesians 4:17
- imagination
- or, stubborness.
- Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 7:24