Ezekiel 16:53

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“But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.”

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BSBPD

“But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:”

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“And I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And I have turned back <FI>to<Fi> their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captives in their midst,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 16:53 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 42:10After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.
  2. Psalms 14:7Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!
  3. Psalms 85:1You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.
  4. Psalms 126:1When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
  5. Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
  6. Isaiah 19:24In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.
  7. Jeremiah 12:16And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
  8. Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
  9. Jeremiah 31:23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
  10. Jeremiah 46:27But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
  11. Jeremiah 48:47Yet in the latter days I will restore Moab from captivity,” declares the LORD. Here ends the judgment on Moab.
  12. Jeremiah 49:6Yet afterward I will restore the Ammonites from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 49:39“Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  14. Ezekiel 16:60But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
  15. Ezekiel 29:14I will restore Egypt from captivity and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
  16. Ezekiel 39:25Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
  17. Joel 3:1“Yes, in those days and at that time, when I restore Judah and Jerusalem from captivity,
  18. Romans 11:23And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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