Ezekiel 7:16
But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:11and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Isaiah 37:31And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping [and] the supplications of the sons of Israel, because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten LORD their God.
Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.
Jeremiah 44:28And those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number. And all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, min
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:2-16
The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine… Read the whole commentary →