1 Samuel 2:3
Good News Translation
Stop your loud boasting; silence your proud words. For the LORD is a God who knows, and he judges all that people do.

New Revised Standard Version
Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Contemporary English Version
I can tell those proud people, "Stop your boasting! Nothing is hidden from the LORD, and he judges what we do."

New American Bible
Speak boastfully no longer, Do not let arrogance issue from your mouths. For an all-knowing God is the LORD, a God who weighs actions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

let not arrogancy [heb] hard

Psalm 94:4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

Proverbs 8:13 Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Daniel 4:30,31,37 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

Malachi 3:13 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

Jude 1:15,16 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God. . . .

a God

1 Kings 8:39 Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as thou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the children of men)

Psalm 44:21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

Psalm 94:7-10 And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand. . . .

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.

Jeremiah 17:10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death: and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts. And I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say

by him

Job 31:6 Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

Daniel 5:27 THECEL: thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting.

Context
Hannah's Prayer of Thanksgiving
2There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God. 3Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.4The bow of the mighty is overcome, and the weak are girt with strength.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7
And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

1 Kings 8:39
Then hear thou in heaven, in the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and do so as to give to every one according to his ways, as thou shalt see his heart (for thou only knowest the heart of all the children of men)

Psalm 17:10
They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.

Psalm 31:18
Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Psalm 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

Proverbs 8:13
Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

Proverbs 24:12
If thou say: I have not strength enough: he that seeth into the heart, he understandeth, and nothing deceiveth the keeper of thy soul, and he shall render to a man according to his works.

1 Samuel 2:2
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