Ezekiel 11:8
You have feared a sword, || And I bring in a sword against you, || A declaration of Lord YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
In Context
Cross References
Job 3:25For I feared a fear and it meets me, || And what I was afraid of comes to me.
Proverbs 10:24The feared thing of the wicked meets him, || And the desire of the righteous is given.
Isaiah 30:16And you say, “No, for we flee on a horse,” || Therefore you flee, || And, “We ride on the swift!” Therefore your pursuers are swift.
Jeremiah 38:19And King Zedekiah says to Jeremiah, “I am fearing the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand, and they have insulted me.”
Jeremiah 42:16then it has come to pass, the sword that you are afraid of, overtakes you there, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which you are sorrowful, cleaves after you there in Egypt, and there you die.
Jeremiah 44:12and I have taken the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they have all been consumed in the land of Egypt; they fall by sword [and] are consumed by famine, from the least even to the greatest, they die by sword and by famine, and they have been for an execration, for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 11:2-14
Message of Wrath to Jerusalem; Presumption of the Princes; Awakening Predictions. ( b. c. 593.) 1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord 's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near; let us… Read the whole commentary →