Ezekiel 36:7

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

Literal

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!

Latin

Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Ego levavi manum meam, ut gentes quæ in circuitu vestro sunt, ipsæ confusionem suam portent.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Ezekiel 36:6–7

The period of enduring the shame of mockery and plundering would now be over for Israel, and Israel’s enemies would soon endure their own shame by being mocked and plundered.

Ezekiel 36:1–15

The destruction of Edom (chapter 35) would prepare the way for the restoration of the mountains of Israel, reversing the devastation threatened in chapter 6.

Events

Prophecies of Ezekielc. 593 BC

Related verses

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.’
Ezekiel 25:1–17
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Amos 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.
Jeremiah 47:1–7
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.
Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
Jeremiah 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.
Revelation 10:5–6
Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven.
Zephaniah 2:1–15
Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
Jeremiah 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.
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Ezekiel (Person) Ezekiel, Book of

Topics

Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Blessing and Restoration

Ezekiel 36:7

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