Ezekiel 21:7

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Ezekiel 21:7

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Summary

And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

Wherefore

Ezekiel 12:9

Ezekiel 20:49

Ezekiel 24:19

For the

And every

Nahum 2:10

All hands

Hebrews 12:12

Faint

It cometh

Ezekiel 7:2

Ezekiel 12:22

1 Peter 4:7

General references

Ezekiel 24:19

Hebrews 12:12

Bible References

Wherefore

"Thou son of man, if Israel, that froward household, ask thee and say, 'What doest thou there?'

Then said I, "O LORD, they will say of me, 'Tush, they are but fables that he telleth.'"

And the people said unto me, "Wilt thou not tell us, what that signifieth, which thou doest?"

For the

One mischief and sorrow shall follow another, and one rumor shall come after another: Then shall they seek visions in vain at their Prophets. The law shall be gone from the priests, and wisdom from the elders.

Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I will bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that the ears of all that hear it shall tingle at it.

Now when the house of David - that is Ahaz - heard word thereof, that Syria and Ephraim were confederate together: His heart quaked, yea and the hearts also of his people, like as a tree in the field that is moved with the wind.

For it shall go forth early in the morning, and continue only that day and that night. And the very fear only shall teach you, when ye hear it.

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Behold, there shall come a people from the North, and a great people shall arise from the ends of the earth;

"Upon Damascus, Hamath and Arpad shall come confusion, for they shall hear evil tidings: they shall be tossed to and fro like the sea that cannot stand still.

And every

Then the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint-hearted.

And let the officers speak further unto the people, and say, 'If any man fear and be fainthearted, let him go and return unto his house, lest his brother's heart be made faint as well as his.'

And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them, "Hear, Israel, the ordinances and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that ye do them.

By the reason whereof, the best men thou hast whose hearts are as the hearts of lions, shall shrink thereat. For all Israel knoweth that thy father is a man, and that they which be with him be children of activity.

Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.

All hands

Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands.

And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.

As soon as the king of Babylon heareth tell of them, his hands shall wax feeble: Sorrow and heaviness shall come upon him, as a woman travailing with child.

and men's hearts shall fail them for fear, and for looking after those things which shall come on the earth. For the powers of heaven shall move.

Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees,

Faint

"'And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them.

Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away;

Sorrow is come upon me, and heaviness vexeth my heart:

Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:

It cometh

"Thee I call, O thou son of man. Thus sayeth the LORD God unto the land of Israel: The end cometh: yea, verily the end cometh upon all the four corners of the land.

"Thou son of man, what manner of byword is that, which ye use in the land of Israel? Saying, 'Tush, seeing that the days are so slack in coming, all the visions are of none effect.'

The end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore discreet, and sober, that ye may be apt to prayers.

General references

And the people said unto me, "Wilt thou not tell us, what that signifieth, which thou doest?"

Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees,