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Ezekiel 38:18

in Ezekiel 38

Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.

KJV

And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.

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This verse in Ezekiel 38

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And it shall come to pass at the same time, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God,.... As before prophesied of and described: that my fury shall come up in my face; as a man's blood rises up in his face, and his colour appears, when he is wroth and angry: or, "in my nose" (s); as men when they are angry puff and blow, expand their nose, breathe through it; but against whom is all this wrath and fury?

This site's exposition

my fury shall come up in my face

on Ezekiel 38:18-20

The anger is described in the most bodily terms the book uses for it, fury coming up in the face, jealousy and the fire of wrath, language the older commentators read as accommodation to human speech for what cannot literally be a face or a fire in God. The shaking that follows reaches every order of creature named in Genesis's own categories, fish, fowl, beasts, creeping things, and men, with mountains thrown down and every wall falling to the ground. Henry sets the scene beside Sinai's own trembling mountain, a theophany answering an invasion with the whole created order as witness.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter XXXVIII.) \"And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince of the head (or head of) Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. And you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of the head (or head of) Meshech and Tubal.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

fury shall come up in my face--literally, "nose"; in Hebrew, the idiomatic expression for anger, as men in anger breathe strongly through the nostrils.

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The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָיָ֣ה׀and it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • בַּיּ֣וֹםon the day

    baiyomH3117 →2304 times

  • הַה֗וּא<the> that

    hahu'H1931 →1879 times

  • בְּי֨וֹםon [the] day

    beyomH3117 →2304 times

  • בּ֥וֹאcomes

    bo'H935 →2568 times

  • גוֹג֙Gog

    goygH1463 →10 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • אַדְמַ֣ת[the] land of

    ʾadmatH127 →225 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of

    neumH5002 →376 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • תַּעֲלֶ֥הit will rise

    taalehH5927 →890 times

  • חֲמָתִ֖יrage my

    chamatiH2534 →125 times

  • בְּאַפִּֽי׃in anger my

    beapiH639 →276 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 36:5–6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.4 worksNahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.4 worksHebrews 12:29“For our God is a consuming fire.”3 worksPsalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?3 worksDeuteronomy 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.3 worksPsalms 18:7–8Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled; they were shaken because He burned with anger.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 59:18So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Hebrews 12:29

    “For our God is a consuming fire.”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:24

      For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

    • Deuteronomy 9:3

      But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate…

    • 2 Thessalonians 1:8

      in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

    • Isaiah 66:15

      For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.

    • Hebrews 10:27

      but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

  • Through

    Nahum 1:2

    The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:5

      You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…

    • Zechariah 8:2

      This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”

  • Through

    Psalms 89:46

    How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

    it leads to

    • Psalms 79:5

      How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Where this verse is studied

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About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Ezekiel, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 38 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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