Ezekiel 5:8

Behold, I am against thee, and I will execute judgment in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

In Context

7Therefore thus saith the Lord, Because your occasion for sin has been taken from the nations round about you, and ye have not walked in my statutes, nor kept mine ordinances, nay, ye have not even done according to the ordinances of the nations round about you; therefore thus saith the Lord;

9And I will do in thee things which I have not done, and the like of which I will not do again, for all thine abominations.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:20God shall by no means be willing to pardon him, but then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy shall flame out against that man; and all the curses of this covenant shall attach themselves to him, which are written in this book, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

1 Kings 9:8And this house, which is high, shall be so that everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Jeremiah 21:13Behold, I am against thee that dwellest in the Valley of Sor; in the plain country, even against them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?

Jeremiah 24:9And I will cause them to be dispersed into all the kingdoms of the earth, and they shall be for a reproach, and a proverb, and an object of hatred, and a curse, in every place whither I have driven them out.

Lamentations 2:5The Lord is become as an enemy: 1 He has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, 1 He has overwhelmed her palaces: 1 He has destroyed his strongholds, 1 And has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones 1 To the daughter of Judah. 1

Lamentations 3:3Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 5:6-17

The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 594.) 5 Thus saith the Lord God ; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round… Read the whole commentary →

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