Ezekiel 5:9

Yea I will execute upon thee that which I have not executed, And like unto which I will not execute again,- Because of all thine abominations.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

In Context

8Therefore, Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Lo! I am against thee, even I, Therefore will I, execute in thy midst, judgments, in the eyes of the nations;

10Therefore, fathers will eat sons in thy midst, And sons will eat fathers,— And I will execute upon thee judgments, And will scatter the whole remnant of thee, to every wind.

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Cross References

Lamentations 4:6And the punishment of the daughter of my people hath grown greater than the punishment of Sodom,—which was overthrown as in a moment, when no hands had been laid violently upon her.

Ezekiel 33:29So shall they know that I, am Yahweh,— When I make the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

Amos 3:2Only you, have I acknowledged, of all the families of the ground, For this cause, will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

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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