Ezekiel 5:8 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 5:8

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I, even I--awfully emphatic. I, even I, whom thou thinkest to be asleep, but who am ever reigning as the Omnipotent Avenger of sin, will vindicate My righteous government before the nations by judgments on thee.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Commentary on Chapter V 1. Take - Thus foretel the mourning, reproach, and deformity that are coming, for all this is signified by shaving the head and beard. A third part - Described on the tile, chap. iv, 1, a type of what should be done in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

I will execute judgments. Note, God himself undertakes to execute his own judgments, according to the true and full intent of them; whatever are the instruments, he is the principal agent.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָכֵ֗ן	la.Khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
כֹּ֤ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַר֙	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
יְהוִ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →
הִנְנִ֥י	hi.Ni	here I	H2005 →
עָלַ֖יִךְ	'a.La.yikh	[am] on you	H5921 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
אָ֑נִי	'A.ni	I	H589 →
וְעָשִׂ֧יתִי	ve.'a.Si.ti	and I will bring about	H6213 →
בְתוֹכֵ֛ךְ	ve.to.Khekh	in [the] midst of you	H8432 →
מִשְׁפָּטִ֖ים	mish.pa.Tim	judgments	H4941 →
לְעֵינֵ֥י	le.'ei.Nei	to [the] eyes of	H5869 →
הַגּוֹיִֽם׃	ha.go.Yim	the nations	H1471 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 21:5
And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
leads to
- Isaiah 63:10
  But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Jeremiah 32:17
  “Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!
- Exodus 6:6
  Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched…
- Isaiah 5:25
  Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all…
Through
Jeremiah 21:13
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
leads to
- Lamentations 4:12
  The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Through
Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
leads to
- Jeremiah 29:18
  I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among…
- Deuteronomy 28:37
  You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Through
Ezekiel 21:3
and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
leads to
- Job 9:22
  It is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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Commentary

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