“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,”
YHWH announces that divine justice is not distant but at hand: the iniquities committed are written before YHWH and YHWH will repay into their laps. The image of divine recording indicates comprehensive knowledge and memory. The promise of repayment indicates justice is inevitable. The specific mention of repaying into their laps suggests personal, inescapable judgment. The assertion that divine response to evil is imminent and certain establishes confidence in divine vindication. This verse transitions from prophetic indictment to divine promise of execution: judgment is determined and pending.
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