Tree of Life Version
Ezekiel 30:2
2“Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Wail, alas, for the day!
Ezekiel 30:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
- New International Version (NIV)“Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Wail and say, “Alas for that day!”
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Wail, ‘Woe to the day!’
Context of Ezekiel 30:2
1The word of Adonai came to me saying: “Son of man, prophesy, and say, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Wail, alas, for the day! 3For the day is near, the day of Adonai is near, a day of clouds, a time for the nations. 4A sword will come against Egypt. Anguish will be in Ethiopia when the slain fall in Egypt. They will take away her abundance. Her foundations will be torn down.
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בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם הִנָּבֵא֙ וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הֵילִ֖ילוּ הָ֥הּ לַיּֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 30:2
- Ezekiel 21:12Now when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, every hand will be limp, every spirit will be faint, and all knees will turn to water. Behold, it is coming, and it will happen!’” It is a declaration of Adonai Elohim.
- Isaiah 13:6Wail, for the day of Adonai is near! it will come as destruction from Shaddai.
- Isaiah 14:31Wail, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, all you of Philistia! For smoke is coming from the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.
- Isaiah 15:2He has gone up to the shrine, to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is bald, every beard shaven.
- Isaiah 16:7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab— everyone will wail! For the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth you will moan, utterly stricken.
- Isaiah 23:1The burden of Tyre. Wail, ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed. There is no house and no harbor. From the land of Cyprus, it was revealed to them.
- Isaiah 65:14Behold, My servants will sing for joy with a happy heart, but you will cry from pain of heart, and wail out of a broken spirit.
- Jeremiah 4:8Therefore, put on sackcloth— lament and wail! For the fierce anger of Adonai has not turned away from us.”
- Jeremiah 47:2Thus says Adonai: “Look, waters rising from the north will become an overflowing torrent, and overflow the land and all in it, the city and those dwelling in it and the men will cry, and every inhabitant of the land wail.
- Joel 1:5Awake, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine— on account of sweet wine, for it is denied to your mouth!
- Zephaniah 1:11Howl, inhabitants of Maktesh! For all the people of Canaan are destroyed. All who weigh out silver are cut off.
- Zechariah 11:2Wail, cypress tree! For the cedar has fallen. Those majestic ones are devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan! For the thick forest is cut down!
- James 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
- Revelation 18:10standing far off because of the terror of her torment, saying: “Alas, alas, O great city— O Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come!”
Commentaries on Ezekiel 30:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Howl ye, Wo worth the day! - My Old MS. Bible, - Soule gee, woo woo to the day! ליום הה הילילו heylilu, hah laiyom ! "Howl ye, Alas for the day!" The reading in our present text is taken from Coverdale's Bible, 1536. The expressions signify that a most dreadful calamity was about to fall on Egypt and the neighboring countries, called here the "time of the heathen," or of the nations; the day of calamity to them. They are afterwards specified, Ethiopia…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-19This third message against Egypt is written as a lament (a poem of sorrow). It repeats much of the earlier message in Ezekiel 29:1–16. God would judge Egypt and its allies. The nation would fall under his judgment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-26Two distinct messages: (1) At Eze 30:1-19, a repetition of Eze 29:1-16, with fuller details of lifelike distinctness. The date is probably not long after that mentioned in Eze 29:17, on the eve of Nebuchadnezzar's march against Egypt after subjugating Tyre. (2) A vision relating directly to Pharaoh and the overthrow of his kingdom; communicated at an earlier date, the seventh of the first month of the eleventh year. Not a year after the date in Eze 29:1…Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Ezekiel 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- 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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