Ezekiel 7:16
But they that escape of them shall escape, and they shall be on the mountains like the doves of the valleys, all of which are moaning, every one in his iniquity.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
17All hands become feeble, and all knees go into water.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:11While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,
Isaiah 37:31And the remnant of the house of Judah that is escaped shall yet strike root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 59:11We growl all of us like bears, and like doves do we moan sorely; we ever hope for justice, but there is none; for aid, but it is far from us.
Jeremiah 3:21A voice is now heard upon the mountain-tops, the supplicatory weeping of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 31:18(31:17) I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untamed calf; cause me to return, and I will return; for thou art the Lord my God.
Jeremiah 44:28Yet some that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, but few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are come into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand firm, mine, or theirs.
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 →