New English Translation
Ezekiel 11:8
8You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 11:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.
- New International Version (NIV)You fear the sword, and the sword is what I will bring against you, declares the Sovereign Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,” says the Lord God.
Context of Ezekiel 11:8
6You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’ 7Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord. 9‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you. 10You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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חֶ֖רֶב יְרֵאתֶ֑ם וְחֶ֙רֶב֙ אָבִ֣יא עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ezekiel 11:8
- Job 3:25For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
- Job 20:24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
- Proverbs 10:24What the wicked fears will come on him; what the righteous desire will be granted.
- Isaiah 24:17Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!
- Isaiah 30:16You say, ‘No, we will flee on horses,’ so you will indeed flee. You say, ‘We will ride on fast horses,’ so your pursuers will be fast.
- Isaiah 66:4So I will choose severe punishment for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; they chose to do what displeases me.”
- Jeremiah 38:19Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Babylonians. The Babylonians might hand me over to them and they will torture me.”
- Jeremiah 42:14You must not say, ‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.’
- Jeremiah 44:12I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle or perish from starvation. People of every class will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse.
- Amos 9:1I saw the sovereign One standing by the altar and he said, “Strike the tops of the support pillars, so the thresholds shake! Knock them down on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the survivors with the sword. No one will be able to run away; no one will be able to escape.
- John 11:48If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
Commentaries on Ezekiel 11:8
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10God once saved his people from foreigners in Egypt, but now he would give them over to foreigners for judgment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. The Chaldean sword, to escape which ye abandoned your God, shall be brought on you by God because of that very abandonment of Him.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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