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Ezekiel 30:2

Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day:

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Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethiopia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Apocalyptic Literature;   Day of the Lord;   Joel, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Day of Judgment;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Woe Worth;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;   Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says:
Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Wail, Alas for the day!
King James Version
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
English Standard Version
"Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God : "Wail, ‘Alas for the day!'
New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: "Wail, 'Woe for the day!'
New Century Version
"Human, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Cry and say, "The terrible day is coming."
Amplified Bible
"Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'
World English Bible
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, prophesie, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Howle and cry, Wo be vnto this day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'
Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,"Wail, ‘Alas for the day!'
Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Wail, "Alas, the day is here!"
Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Egypt that I am saying: Cry out in despair,
Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, prophesy; say that Adonai Elohim says, ‘Wail, "Oh no! It's today!"
Darby Translation
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Howl ye, Alas for the day!
Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, speak for me. Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "‘Cry and say, "A terrible day is coming."
George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God: Howl and cry, Oh, for the day!
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "prophesy and announce what I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying. You are to shout these words: A day of terror is coming!
Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, prophesy, and you must say, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Wail, alas! For the day!
Literal Translation
Son of man, prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Howl, Alas for the day!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, prophecy & speake: thus saieth the LORDE God: Mourne, wo worth this daye,
American Standard Version
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Wail ye, Alas for the day!
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: wail ye: Woe worth the day!
King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man prophecie, and speake, thus sayth the Lorde God, howle, wo worth this day:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Woe, woe worth the day!
English Revised Version
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Sone of man, profesie thou, and seie, The Lord God seith these thingis, Yelle ye, Wo!
Update Bible Version
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail, Alas for the day!
Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Alas the day!
New English Translation
"Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: "‘Wail, "Alas, the day is here!"
New King James Version
"Son of man, prophesy and say, "Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, "Woe to the day!'
New Living Translation
"Son of man, prophesy and give this message from the Sovereign Lord : "Weep and wail for that day,
New Life Bible
"Son of man, speak in My name and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: "Cry in a loud voice, ‘It is bad for that day!'
New Revised Standard
Mortal, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God : Wail, "Alas for the day!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man Prophesy. and thou shalt say, Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, - Howl ye. Alas for the day!
Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Wail, 'Alas for the day!'
Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Howl ye, ha! for the day!

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2 Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe to the day: 3 For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed. 5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. 8 And they shall know that I am the Lord: when I shall have set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from my face in ships to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come. 10 Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Howl: Ezekiel 21:12, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 14:31, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 16:7, Isaiah 23:1, Isaiah 23:6, Isaiah 65:14, Jeremiah 4:8, Jeremiah 47:2, Joel 1:5, Joel 1:11, Zephaniah 1:11, Zechariah 11:2, James 5:1, Revelation 18:10

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 51:8 - howl

Cross-References

Genesis 16:2
She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,
Genesis 20:18
For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 25:21
And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.
Genesis 29:31
And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
Genesis 30:5
When her husband had gone in unto her, conceived and bore a son.
Genesis 30:6
And Rachel said: The Lord hath judged for me, and hath heard my voice, giving me a son; and therefore she called his name Dan.
Genesis 30:13
And Lia said: This is for my happiness: for women will call me blessed. Therefore she called him Aser.
Genesis 30:14
And Ruben going out in the time of the wheat harvest into the field, found mandrakes: which he brought to his mother Lia. And Rachel said: Give me part of thy son’s mandrakes.
Genesis 31:36
And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me,
Genesis 50:19
And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, prophesy and say, thus saith the Lord God,.... Prophesy against Egypt's king and inhabitants, and in the name of the Lord thus speak against them:

howl ye; ye Egyptians, and also ye Ethiopians, and all others after named, which should share in the destruction of Egypt; this is said to give them notice of it, and prepare them for it:

woe worth the day! or, "alas for the day!" d O the unhappy day! what a sad dismal day is this! O that we should ever live to see such wretched times!

d הה ליום "bah diei", Munster, Vatablus; "heu diei", Cocceius, Starckius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 30:2. Howl ye, Wo worth the day! — My Old MS. Bible, - Soule gee, woo woo to the day! הילילו הה ליום heylilu, hah laiyom! "Howl ye, Alas for the day!" The reading in our present text is taken from Coverdale's Bible, 1535. The expressions signify that a most dreadful calamity was about to fall on Egypt and the neighbouring countries, called here the "time of the heathen," or of the nations; the day of calamity to them. They are afterwards specified, Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, and Chub, and the mingled people, probably persons from different nations, who had followed the ill fortune of Pharaoh-hophra or Pharaoh-apries, when he fled from Amasis, and settled in Upper Egypt.


 
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