Ezekiel 29:4

For I will place hooks in your jaw, and the fish of your Nile will cling to your scales; I will lift you up from the middle of your river along with all the fish of the river that cling to your scales. 1

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In The King James Version

But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

In Context

3Declare and say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: 1 Behold! I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 1 You, the great sea monster that lurks in the midst of the river, 1 that says, “My river is my own. I have made it for myself.”

5I will throw you down into the wilderness, you and all the fish from your river. 1 You will fall on the open field; you will not be gathered nor lifted up. 1 I will give you as food to the living things of the earth and to the birds of the heavens. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:28Because of your raging against me, 2 and because your arrogance has reached my ears, 1 I will put my hook in your nose, 2 and my bit in your mouth; 1 I will turn you back 2 the way you came.”

Isaiah 37:29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has reached my ears, 1 I will put my hook in your nose, and my bit in your mouth; 1 I will turn you back the way you came.” 1

Ezekiel 38:4So I will turn you around and set hooks in your jaw; I will send you out with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all of them dressed in full armor, a great company with large shields and small shields, all of them holding swords!

Habakkuk 1:14You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 29:2-8

Pride of Pharaoh; The Ruin of Pharaoh. ( b. c. 589.) 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks… Read the whole commentary →

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