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English Standard Version

Ezekiel 32:11

"For thus says the Lord God : The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

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.
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!
Contemporary English Version
The king of Babylonia is coming to attack you, king of Egypt!
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 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 "Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers. 3 Thus says the Lord God : I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet. 4 And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you. 5 I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass. 6 I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you. 7 When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord God . 9 "I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known. 10 I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

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
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Genesis 32:1
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
Genesis 32:2
And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Deuteronomy 22:6
"If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.
1 Samuel 12:10
And they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.'
1 Samuel 24:15
May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
Psalms 16:1

A Miktam of David.

Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
Psalms 25:20
Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Psalms 31:2
Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!

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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