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Ezekiel 5

Ezek. 5:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore thus saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
God
Yhovih (Hebrew #3069)
a variation of 3068 (used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136)
KJV usage: God.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vee'
; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
judgments
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
in the midst
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
of thee in the sight
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
of the nations
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
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Cross References

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Ezek. 15:7• 7And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them. (Ezek. 15:7)
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Ezek. 21:3• 3and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. (Ezek. 21:3)
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Ezek. 26:3• 3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I am against thee, Ο Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. (Ezek. 26:3)
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Ezek. 28:22• 22And say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, Ο Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. (Ezek. 28:22)
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Ezek. 35:3• 3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, Ο mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. (Ezek. 35:3)
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Ezek. 39:1• 1And thou, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal; (Ezek. 39:1)
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Lev. 26:17‑46• 17And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies: they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
 18And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,
 19and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze;
 20and your strength shall be spent in vain; and your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
 21And if ye walk contrary to me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you, according to your sins.
 22And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.
 23And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary to me,
 24then will I also walk contrary to you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
 25And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
 26When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
 27And if for all this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary to me,
 28then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you sevenfold for your sins.
 29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
 30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
 31And I will lay waste your cities, and desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
 32And I will bring the land into desolation, that your enemies who dwell therein may be astonished at it.
 33And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.
 34Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths all the days of her desolation, when ye [are] in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy her Sabbaths.
 35All the days of the desolation it shall rest; in which it rested not on your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
 36And as to those that remain of you, I will send faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as one fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;
 37and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
 38And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
 39And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.
 40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me,
 41so [that] I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
 43For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because, they despised my judgments, and their soul despised my statutes.
 44And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, and to break my covenant with them, for I [am] Jehovah their God.
 45But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I [am] Jehovah.
 46These [are] the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses, (Lev. 26:17‑46)
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Deut. 29:20• 20Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens; (Deut. 29:20)
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Jer. 21:5,13• 5And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
 13Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? (Jer. 21:5,13)
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Lam. 2:5• 5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,{HR}He hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds,{HR}And hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. (Lam. 2:5)
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Lam. 3:3• 3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. (Lam. 3:3)
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Zech. 14:2‑3• 2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
 3And Jehovah will go forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. (Zech. 14:2‑3)
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Matt. 22:7• 7And the king was wroth and, sending his troops, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. (Matt. 22:7)
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Ezek. 25:2‑6• 2Son of man, set thy face against the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
 3and say unto the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah; Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
 4behold, therefore, I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their villages in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
 5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the sons of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
 6For thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; (Ezek. 25:2‑6)
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Ezek. 26:2• 2Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: (Ezek. 26:2)
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Ezek. 29:6‑7• 6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
 7When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. (Ezek. 29:6‑7)
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Ezek. 35:10‑15• 10Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:
 11therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
 12And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
 13Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
 14Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
 15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, Ο mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 35:10‑15)
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Deut. 29:23‑28• 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
 24even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
 25And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
 26and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
 27And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
 28and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day. (Deut. 29:23‑28)
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1 Kings 9:8‑9• 8and this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
 9And they shall say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought upon them all this evil. (1 Kings 9:8‑9)
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Jer. 22:8‑9• 8And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every one to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?
 9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. (Jer. 22:8‑9)
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Jer. 24:9• 9and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (Jer. 24:9)
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Jer. 50:7• 7All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of justice, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers. (Jer. 50:7)
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Lam. 2:15‑17• 15All that pass by clap their hands at thee;{HR}They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,{HR}Is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?
 16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:{HR}They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up:{HR}Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
 17Jehovah hath done that which he had devised;{HR}He hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:{HR}He hath thrown down and hath not pitied:{HR}And he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee,{HR}He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. (Lam. 2:15‑17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations;

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.