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Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel 32:11

The king of Babylonia is coming to attack you, king of Egypt!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Thompson Chain Reference - War;   War-Peace;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Repentance;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“‘For this is what the Lord God says:
Hebrew Names Version
For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Bavel shall come on you.
King James Version
For thus saith the Lord God ; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
English Standard Version
"For thus says the Lord God : The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
New American Standard Bible
For the Lord GOD says this: "The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.
New Century Version
"‘So this is what the Lord God says: The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.
Amplified Bible
For thus says the Lord GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.
World English Bible
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thus sayth the Lorde God, The sworde of the King of Babel shall come vpon thee.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For thus says the Lord GOD, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.
Legacy Standard Bible
For thus says Lord Yahweh, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.
Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!
Complete Jewish Bible
"For Adonai Elohim says this: ‘The sword of the king of Bavel will come against you.
Darby Translation
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
That will happen because of what the Lord God said: "The sword of the king of Babylon will come to fight against you.
George Lamsa Translation
For thus says the LORD God: The sword of Babylon shall come upon you.
Good News Translation
The Sovereign Lord says to the king of Egypt, "You will face the sword of the king of Babylonia.
Lexham English Bible
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The sword of the king of Babylon, it will come to you.
Literal Translation
For so says the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thus saieth the LORDE God: the kynge of Babilons swearde shal come vpon ye,
American Standard Version
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Bible in Basic English
For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
King James Version (1611)
For thus saith the Lord God, The sword of the king of Babylon shal come vpon thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thus saith the Lorde God, The king of Babylons sworde shal come vpon thee:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,
English Revised Version
For thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord God seith these thingis, The swerd of the king of Babiloyne schal come to thee;
Update Bible Version
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
New English Translation
"‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: "‘The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.
New King James Version
"For thus says the Lord GOD: "The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
New Living Translation
For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: "The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.
New Life Bible
For the Lord God says, "The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.
New Revised Standard
For thus says the Lord God : The sword of the king of Babylon shall come against you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For thus saith My Lord, Yahweh:-the sword of the king of Babylon shall reach thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee,
Revised Standard Version
For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
Young's Literal Translation
For thus said the Lord Jehovah: A sword of the king of Babylon entereth thee,
THE MESSAGE
"‘ God , the Master, says: "‘The sword of the king of Babylon is coming against you. I'll use the swords of champions to lay your pride low, Use the most brutal of nations to knock Egypt off her high horse, to puncture that hot-air pomposity. I'll destroy all their livestock that graze along the river. Neither human foot nor animal hoof will muddy those waters anymore. I'll clear their springs and streams, make their rivers flow clean and smooth. Decree of God , the Master. When I turn Egypt back to the wild and strip her clean of all her abundant produce, When I strike dead all who live there, then they'll realize that I am God .'

Contextual Overview

1 Twelve years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the first day of the twelfth month. He said: 2 Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the king of Egypt and tell him I am saying: You act like a lion roaming the earth; but you are nothing more than a crocodile in a river, churning up muddy water with your feet. 3 King of Egypt, listen to me. I, the Lord God, will catch you in my net and let a crowd of foreigners drag you to shore. 4 I will throw you into an open field, where birds and animals will come to feed on your body. 5 I will spread your rotting flesh over the mountains and in the valleys, 6 and your blood will flow throughout the land and fill up the streams. 7 I will cover the whole sky and every star with thick clouds, so that the sun and moon will stop shining. 8 The heavens will become black, leaving your country in total darkness. I, the Lord , have spoken. 9 Foreign nations you have never heard of will be shocked when I tell them how I destroyed you. 10 They will be horrified, and when I flash my sword in victory on the day of your death, their kings will tremble in the fear of what could happen to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The sword: Ezekiel 26:7, Ezekiel 30:4, Ezekiel 30:22-25, Jeremiah 43:10, Jeremiah 46:13, Jeremiah 46:24-26

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:26 - I will Ezekiel 30:10 - I will Ezekiel 31:11 - the mighty

Cross-References

Genesis 27:41
Esau hated his brother Jacob because he had stolen the blessing that was supposed to be his. So he said to himself, "Just as soon as my father dies, I'll kill Jacob."
Genesis 32:1
As Jacob was on his way back home, some of God's angels came and met him.
Genesis 32:2
When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's camp." So he named the place Mahanaim.
Deuteronomy 22:6
Moses said to Israel: As you walk along the road, you might see a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground. If the mother bird is in the nest with either her eggs or her baby birds, you are allowed to take the baby birds or the eggs, but not the mother bird. Let her go free, and the Lord will bless you with a long and successful life.
1 Samuel 12:10
Again your ancestors cried out to the Lord for help. They said, "We have sinned! We stopped worshiping you, our Lord , and started worshiping Baal and Astarte. But now, if you rescue us from our enemies, we will worship you."
1 Samuel 24:15
I pray that the Lord will help me escape and show that I am in the right.
Psalms 16:1

(A special psalm by David.)

Protect me, Lord God! I run to you for safety,
Psalms 25:20
I come to you for shelter. Protect me, keep me safe, and don't disappoint me.
Psalms 31:2
Listen to my prayer and hurry to save me. Be my mighty rock and the fortress where I am safe.
Psalms 43:1
Show that I am right, God! Defend me against everyone who doesn't know you; rescue me from each of those deceitful liars.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord God, the sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. Upon Pharaoh and his kingdom; having a commission and a direction from the Lord, and which would be the instrument of the destruction before threatened. The Targum is,

"those that slay with the sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon or against thee;''

his army, sword in hand.


 
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