Ezekiel 11:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD.”
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“You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 11:8 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- Job 20:24Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow will pierce him.
- Proverbs 10:24What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
- Isaiah 24:17Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
- Isaiah 30:16“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
- Isaiah 66:4So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
- Jeremiah 38:19But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
- Jeremiah 42:14and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
- Jeremiah 42:16then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.
- Jeremiah 42:17So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’
- Jeremiah 44:12And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- Amos 9:1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.
- John 11:48If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
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