Ezekiel 7:16
While they who escape of them shall escape and become on the mountains as the doves of the valleys, all of them cooing,—each one in his punishment.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
17All hands shall be unnerved; and All knees shall be weak as water,
Cross References
Proverbs 5:11So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;
Isaiah 37:31Then shall the escaped of the house of Judah that remain, again, Take root downward,—And bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 59:11We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo,—We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us!
Jeremiah 3:21A voice on the bare heights, is heard, The weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel,—Because they have perverted their way, Have forgotten Yahweh their God.
Jeremiah 31:18I have, heard, Ephraim bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return that I may return, For thou, art Yahweh my God.
Jeremiah 44:28Yet, the fugitives of the sword, shall certainly return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah men easily counted,—that all the remnant of Judah who are entering Egypt to sojourn there, may know, whose word, shall stand, mine or theirs!
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:2-16
The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. 3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine… Read the whole commentary →