What Does Deuteronomy 32:34 Mean in the King James?

Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

Deuteronomy 32:34 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

What is hidden here is not forgotten; it is sealed under God’s custody.

THE MEANING

What appears delayed or hidden from your sight remains held in God’s keeping. Storage and sealing make the concealment deliberate preservation, not disappearance. The next verse names vengeance and recompence, giving this reserve a grave edge.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that delay means a wrong has been forgotten. Here, what is hidden remains sealed in God’s keeping.

THE ROOT

חָתוּם

chatum

GROWS FROM

חתם

To seal or close under a seal.

“sealed” in this verse is chatum. The same root names both the act of closing and the signet that marks what is held. The seal suggests deliberate custody: the matter is hidden, but still identified and retained.

ALSO GROWS

chotam: Signet or seal.

חוֹתָם

In Genesis 38:18, the signet is a mark of identity and authority; the seal here likewise marks the matter as held under authority.

chatam: To seal.

חָתַם

Daniel 12:4 uses this verb for sealing a book, showing how something can be kept closed until its appointed unveiling.

THE PATTERN

What is kept out of sight can remain preserved in an account until it is brought forward.

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Job 14:17 · KJVTransgression is pictured as sealed and retained, so concealment does not erase what is held.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Psalm 56:8 · KJVTears are held in a bottle and written in a book; even what goes unseen remains remembered.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Romans 2:5 · KJVHardness stores wrath toward its unveiling, turning delay into accumulation.

THE THREAD

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Job 14:17 · KJV

Job uses the same root for “sealed” to picture transgression kept in a closed place. That shared image makes the seal here feel like retained accountability, not disappearance.

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