Ezekiel 36:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.”
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“Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.”
King James Version · Public Domain“therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I--I have lifted up My hand, Do not--the nations who <FI>are<Fi> with you from round about--they their own shame bear?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 36:7 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
- Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 25:15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
- Jeremiah 47:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.
- Ezekiel 20:5and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—
- Ezekiel 25:1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Amos 1:1These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
- Zephaniah 2:1Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
- Revelation 10:5Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.
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