Ezekiel 21:6

(21:11) But thou, son of man, do thou sigh: as though with broken loins, and with bitterness [of grief] shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

In Context

5(21:10) That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

7(21:12) And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, For the report, because it cometh, when every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall become faint, and all knees shall be changed into water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Eternal.

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Cross References

Isaiah 16:11Therefore my bowels shall groan for Moab like a harp, and my inward parts for Kir-charess.

Isaiah 22:4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; be not urgent to comfort me, because of the wasting of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 9:17(9:16) Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Consider it well, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the women skilled in lament, that they may come;

Jeremiah 30:6Ask ye now, and see whether a male doth give birth to a child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in giving birth? and why are all faces turned pale?

Ezekiel 6:11Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Strike thy hands together, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the dreadful abominations of the house of Israel! who will have to fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezekiel 12:3But thou, O son of man, prepare for thyself vessels for going into exile, and wander away by day before their eyes; and thou shalt wander away from thy place to another place before their eyes: perhaps they may become aware that they are a rebellious family.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:2-8

Threatenings against Israel; Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall… Read the whole commentary →

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