Ezekiel 11:8
You are afraid of being killed by enemies’ swords, and that is what I will cause to happen to you.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
In Context
9I will expel you from this city and enable foreigners to capture you and punish you.
Cross References
Job 3:25Things that I always worried might happen to me, have happened to me; things that I always dreaded have happened to me.
Proverbs 10:24Righteous people will get the good things that they want/desire, but what wicked people are afraid of is what will happen to them.
Isaiah 30:16You said, ‘No, we will escape on horses that the army of Egypt will give us!’ So, you will try to flee. You said, ‘We will escape from the army of Assyria by riding on swift horses!’ But those who pursue you will also ride swiftly.
Jeremiah 38:19The king replied, “But I am afraid to surrender to the soldiers from Babylon, because their officers may hand me over to the people of Judah who have already joined the soldiers from Babylonia, and those people from Judah will mistreat me.”
Jeremiah 42:16you will experience those wars and famines that you are afraid of, and you will all die there.
Jeremiah 44:12You people from Judah who have survived were determined to come and live here in Egypt. So I will get rid of all of you here in Egypt. Every one of you will die, including those who are important and those who are not important. Some of you will be killed by your enemies’ swords, some will die from famines. You will become people whom others curse, be horrified about, and make fun of.
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 →