Ezekiel 11:8

A sword, have ye feared,— And a sword, will I bring in upon you, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

7Therefore Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Your slain. whom ye have laid in her midst, They are the flesh, and She is the caldron,—when ye are taken out of her midst.

9So will I take you forth out of her midst, and will deliver you into the hand of foreigners, —and will execute upon you judgments.

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Cross References

Job 3:25For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.

Proverbs 10:24The dread of the lawless one, the same, shall overtake him, but, the desire of the righteous, shall he granted.

Isaiah 30:16But ye said,—Nay! but on horses, will we flee For this cause, shall ye indeed flee,—And on the swift, will we ride, For this cause, swift, shall be your pursuers:

Jeremiah 38:19Then said King Zedekiah unto Jeremiah: I am afraid of the Jews who have fallen away unto the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me, into their hand, and they maltreat me.

Jeremiah 42:16then shall it come to pass that the sword which ye are fearing shall, there, overtake you, in the land of Egypt,—and the famine which ye are dreading, shall, there, lay fast hold of you, in Egypt, and, there, shall ye die.

Jeremiah 44:12and I will take the remnant of Judah who did set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, in the land of Egypt, shall they fall by the sword, by famine, shall they be consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine, shall they die,—so shall they become a curse, and an astonishment, and a contempt and 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 →

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