Exodus 32:12
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
KJV
Ne quæso dicant Ægyptii : Callide eduxit eos, ut interficeret in montibus, et deleret e terra : quiescat ira tua, et esto placabilis super nequitia populi tui.
Vulgate
μή ποτε εἴπωσιν οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι λέγοντες Μετὰ πονηρίας ἐξήγαγεν αὐτοὺς ἀποκτεῖναι ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν καὶ ἐξαναλῶσαι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς. παῦσαι τῆς ὀργῆς τοῦ θυμοῦ σου, καὶ ἵλεως γενοῦ ἐπὶ τῇ κακίᾳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου,
LXX
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
ASV
לָ/מָּה֩ יֹאמְר֨וּ מִצְרַ֜יִם לֵ/אמֹ֗ר בְּ/רָעָ֤ה הֽוֹצִיאָ/ם֙ לַ/הֲרֹ֤ג אֹתָ/ם֙ בֶּֽ/הָרִ֔ים וּ֨/לְ/כַלֹּתָ֔/ם מֵ/עַ֖ל פְּנֵ֣י הָֽ/אֲדָמָ֑ה שׁ֚וּב מֵ/חֲר֣וֹן אַפֶּ֔/ךָ וְ/הִנָּחֵ֥ם עַל הָ/רָעָ֖ה לְ/עַמֶּֽ/ךָ
Hebrew
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17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
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2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2577From this intimacy with the faithful God, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love,23 Moses drew strength and determination for his intercession. He does not pray for himself but for the people whom God made his own. Moses already intercedes for them during the battle with the Amalekites and prays to obtain healing for Miriam.24 But it is chiefly after their apostasy that …
Cross-references
- 1Sam 12:22 — For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
- Amos 7:3 — The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
- Amos 7:6 — The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
- Deut 9:28 — Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in t
- Deut 9:28 — Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in t
- Deut 13:17 — And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he h
- Deut 32:26 — I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
- Deut 32:27 — Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
- Deut 32:36 — For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- Exod 32:14 — And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
- Ezek 20:9 — But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt
- Ezek 20:9 — But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt
- Ezek 20:14 — But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
- Ezek 20:22 — Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
- Ezra 10:14 — Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
- Gen 6:6 — And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
- Jer 18:8 — If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
- Jer 28:16 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
- Jonah 3:9 — Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
- Josh 7:9 — For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
- Josh 7:9 — For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
- Josh 7:26 — And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
- Num 14:13 — And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
- Ps 74:18 — Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
- Ps 78:38 — But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
- Ps 79:9 — Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
- Ps 85:3 — Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
- Ps 90:13 — Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- Ps 106:45 — And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
- Ps 115:2 — Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
- Zech 8:14 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: