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Ezekiel 36:7

For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;   Gentiles/heathen;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jews;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I swear that the nations all around you will endure their own insults.
Hebrew Names Version
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
King James Version
Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
English Standard Version
Therefore thus says the Lord God : I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore the Lord GOD says this: 'I have sworn that the nations that are around you will certainly endure their insults themselves.
New Century Version
So this is what the Lord God says: I promise that the nations around you will also have to suffer insults.
Amplified Bible
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'I have lifted up My hand and sworn [an oath] that the nations that are around you will themselves endure their [shameful] insults.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I haue lifted vp mine hand, surely the heathen that are about you, shal beare their shame.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults.
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves bear their dishonor.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations all around you will endure reproach of their own.
Contemporary English Version
so I will now insult and disgrace them. That is my solemn promise.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim : "I have raised my hand and sworn that the nations surrounding you will bear their shame.
Darby Translation
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up my hand, [saying,] Verily the nations that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
Easy-to-Read Version
So this is what the Lord God says: "I am the one making this promise! I swear that the nations around you will have to suffer for those insults.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore thus says the LORD God: I have lifted up my hand against the nations that are round about you, so that they may bear their shame.
Good News Translation
I, the Sovereign Lord , solemnly promise that the surrounding nations will be humiliated.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "I swear certainly that the nations that are all around you, they indeed will endure their disgrace.
Literal Translation
So the Lord Jehovah says this: I have lifted up My hand, surely the nations that surround you, they shall bear their shame.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
therfore thus saieth the LORDE God: I haue sworne, that the Gentiles which lye aboute you, shal beare youre confucion them selues.
American Standard Version
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: I have lifted up My hand: Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I haue lifted vp mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall beare their shame.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, I haue lyft vp my hande, surely the heathen that are about you, shall beare their shame.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
therefore I will lift up my hand against the nations that are round about you; they shall bear their reproach.
English Revised Version
therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: I have lifted up mine hand, saying, Surely the heathen that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
World English Bible
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
therfor the Lord God seith these thingis, Lo! Y reiside myn hond ayens hethene men, that ben in youre cumpas, that thei bere her schenschipe.
Update Bible Version
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up my hand, Surely the heathen that [are] about you, they shall bear their shame.
New English Translation
So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow that the nations around you will endure insults as well.
New King James Version
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.
New Living Translation
Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I have taken a solemn oath that those nations will soon have their own shame to endure.
New Life Bible
So the Lord God says, ‘I promise that the nations around you will also suffer shame.
New Revised Standard
therefore thus says the Lord God : I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer insults.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, I myself have lifted my hand,- Surely the nations which are yours round about, they their own shame, shall bear:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles who are round about you, shall themselves bear their shame.
Revised Standard Version
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are round about you shall themselves suffer reproach.
Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I -- I have lifted up My hand, Do not -- the nations who [are] with you from round about -- they their own shame bear?

Contextual Overview

1 And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord: 2 This is what the Lord has said: Because your hater has said against you, Aha! and, The old waste places are our heritage, we have taken them: 3 For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people: 4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about: 5 For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it: 6 For this cause be a prophet about the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, This is what the Lord has said: Truly, in my bitter feeling and in my wrath I have said these things, because you have undergone the shame of the nations: 7 For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you. 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come. 9 For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted: 10 And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have lifted: Ezekiel 20:5, Ezekiel 20:15, Deuteronomy 32:40, Revelation 10:5, Revelation 10:6

the heathen: Ezekiel 25:1 - Ezekiel 35:15, Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:15-29, Jeremiah 47:1 - Jeremiah 51:64, Amos 1:1-15, Zephaniah 2:1-15

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:8 - swear Ezekiel 16:52 - bear thine Ezekiel 32:24 - borne Ezekiel 44:13 - bear Malachi 1:3 - laid

Cross-References

Genesis 13:6
So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.
Genesis 13:11
So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.
Genesis 17:8
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
Genesis 28:4
And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... This being the case, the people of God being in distress, and under shame and disgrace, and the enemy insulting them, and triumphing over them:

I have lifted up mine hand; solemnly swore; lifting up of the hand being a rite used by men when they swore, Genesis 14:22:

surely the Heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame; the punishment of their shame; that which is justly due to them for reproaching and putting to shame the people of God: or they shall be a laughing stock to others, and be reproached and derided themselves, and so be paid in their own coin; a just retaliation this for their treatment of the Jews.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have lifted up mine hand - i. e., I have sworn. Compare marginal reference.

Their shame - They shall find their taunts come home to themselves.


 
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