Ezekiel 36:7
5 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
6 Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
9 For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
- KJV
- Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
- WEB
- Therefore the Lord GOD says: “I have sworn, ‘Surely the nations that are around you will bear their shame.’
- ASV
- therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn, [saying], Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- Therefore, thus says the Lord YHWH: I—I have lifted up My hand [that] surely the nations that [are] surrounding you⁺, they will bear their own shame!
- ÅB
- derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Jeg har løftet min hånd og svoret: Sannelig, de folk som bor rundt omkring dere, de skal selv lide hån.
- OTB
- Derfor, så sier Herren Gud: Jeg har sverget at nasjonene rundt dere også skal tåle sine egne fornærmelser.
- B1930
- derfor sier Herren, Israels Gud, så: Jeg har løftet min hånd og svoret: Sannelig, de folk som bor rundt omkring eder, de skal selv lide hån.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 20:5
and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’
Read in contextAmos 1:1–15
These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
Read in contextEzekiel 25:1–17
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Read in contextJeremiah 25:15–29
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
Read in contextJeremiah 47:1–7
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.
Read in contextRevelation 10:5–6
Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
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