Ezekiel 13:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Have not

Gaps

Isaiah 58:12

Lamentations 2:13

To stand

The day

Bible References

Have not

I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.

Moses said to Joshua, “Select some men for us and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God’s staff in my hand.”

But Moses interceded with the Lord his God: “Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?

“Separate yourselves from this community so I may consume them instantly.”

“As for me, I vow that I will not sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you. I will teach you the good and right way.

So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My compassions would not reach out to these people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.

If they had really stood in My council,
they would have enabled My people to hear My words
and would have turned them back from their evil ways
and their evil deeds.

If they are indeed prophets and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them intercede with the Lord of Hosts not to let the articles that remain in the Lord’s temple, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem go to Babylon.’

“And now ask for God’s favor. Will He be gracious to us? Since this has come from your hands, will He show any of you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.

Gaps

Some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins;
you will restore the foundations laid long ago;

you will be called the repairer of broken walls,
the restorer of streets where people live.

מ MemWhat can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?

To stand

Do you have an arm like God’s?
Can you thunder with a voice like His?

And You—You are to be feared.
When You are angry,
who can stand before You?

I am not angry,
but if it produces thorns and briers for Me,
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.

This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

For they are spirits of demons performing signs, who travel to the kings of the whole world to assemble them for the battle of the great day of God, the Almighty.

and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the sea.

The day

For a day is near;
a day belonging to the Lord is near.
It will be a day of clouds,
a time of doom for the nations.

For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is coming
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—

Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.

Woe because of that day!
For the Day of the Lord is near
and will come as devastation from the Almighty.

Blow the horn in Zion;
sound the alarm on My holy mountain!
Let all the residents of the land tremble,
for the Day of the Lord is coming;
in fact, it is near—

Multitudes, multitudes
in the valley of decision!
For the Day of the Lord is near
in the valley of decision.

Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord!
What will the Day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.

The great Day of the Lord is near,
near and rapidly approaching.
Listen, the Day of the Lord—
then the warrior’s cry is bitter.

before the decree takes effect
and the day passes like chaff,
before the burning of the Lord’s anger overtakes you,
before the day of the Lord’s anger overtakes you.

Look, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome Day of the Lord comes.

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief;

on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.

because the great day of Their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?”