Ezekiel 6:10

And they shall know that I, the Lord, have not spoken in vain, that I would do this evil to them.”

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In The King James Version

And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

In Context

9And your liberated shall remember me among the nations to which they were led away as captives. For I have crushed their heart, which fornicated and withdrew from me, and their eyes, which fornicated after their idols. And they will be displeased with themselves over the evils that they have done by all their abominations.

11Thus says the Lord God: “Strike with your hand, and stomp with your foot, and say: ‘Alas, to all the abominations of the evils of the house of Israel!’ For they will fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 44:28And a few men, who will flee from the sword, will return from the land of Egypt into the land of Judah. And all the remnant of Judah, who had entered into the land of Egypt so as to live there, will know whose word will be completed, mine or theirs.

Ezekiel 6:7And the slain will fall in your midst. And you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:14How can your heart endure, or your hands prevail, in the days that I will bring upon you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will act.

Zechariah 1:6Yet truly my words and my lawfulness, which I entrusted to my servants the prophets, were indeed comprehended by your fathers, and so they were converted, and they said: Just as the Lord of hosts decided to do to us, according to our ways and according to our inventions, so has he done to us.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 6:9-11

Mercy Promised to the Penitent; Effect of Repentance. ( b. c. 594.) 8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have… Read the whole commentary →

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