Ezekiel 7:27 Cross References - NSB

²⁷ ‘»The king will mourn. The prince will be clothed with despair and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct. By their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am Jehovah.’«

²⁸ A man of God came to the king of Israel. He said: »Jehovah says, ‘Because the Aramaeans have said, »Jehovah is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am Jehovah.«’«

¹⁶ Jehovah has revealed himself by his righteous judgments. The wicked are trapped by their deeds.

¹¹ How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done to others will be done to them.

⁸ The Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plain of Jericho. His entire army had deserted him. ⁹ The Babylonians captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah in Hamath. The king of Babylon passed sentence on him there. ¹⁰ The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons as Zedekiah watched. He also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. ¹¹ Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze shackles. The king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in a prison, where he stayed until he died.

⁴ ‘»I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and the detestable practices among you. THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM JEHOVAH.’ ⁵ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Disaster! An unheard-of disaster is coming. ⁶ ‘»The end has come! The end has come! It has become active against you. It has come! ⁷ ‘»Doom has come upon you who dwell in the land. The time has come, the day is near. There is panic, not joy, upon the mountains. ⁸ ‘»I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices.

¹⁰ »Tell them: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘This is the divine revelation about the prince from Jerusalem and about all the people of Israel who live there.’« ¹¹ »Tell them: ‘I am your warning sign. What I have done will happen to you. You will go into exile and into captivity. ¹² ‘»The prince who is among you will put his bags on his shoulders in the dark and leave. People will dig holes in the wall to go through. The prince will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.’« ¹³ »I will also spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he will not see it, though he will die there. ¹⁴ »I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops. I will draw out a sword after them. ¹⁵ »So they will know that I am Jehovah when I scatter them among the nations and spread them among the countries. ¹⁶ »I will spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am Jehovah.« ¹⁷ Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me, He said: ¹⁸ »Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. ¹⁹ »Then say to the people of the land: ‘The Lord Jehovah says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it. ²⁰ ‘»The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am Jehovah.«’ ²¹ Then the word of Jehovah came to me: ²² »Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel. You say: ‘The days are long and every vision fails?’

¹⁵ »But he rebelled against him! He sent his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things escape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?’ ¹⁶ »‘»As I am alive,’ says the Lord Jehovah, ‘this king will die in Babylon because he broke his oath and the treaty with the one who put him on the throne the king of Babylon. ¹⁷ ‘»Even the powerful army of the king of Egypt will not be able to help him fight when the Babylonians build earthworks and dig trenches in order to kill many people. ¹⁸ ‘»He broke his oath and the treaty he had made. He did all these things, and now he will not escape.«’ ¹⁹ ‘»The Lord Jehovah says: »As surely as I am the living God, I will punish him for breaking the treaty that he swore in my name to keep. ²⁰ ‘»I will spread out a hunter's net and catch him in it. I will take him to Babylon and punish him there, because he was unfaithful to me. ²¹ ‘»His best troops will be killed in battle, and the survivors will be scattered in every direction. I Jehovah have spoken.«’

³⁰ ‘»That is why I will judge each of you by what you have done, people of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah. Change the way you think and act. (Repent!) Turn away from all the rebellious things that you have done so that you will not fall into sin.

²⁵ »You dishonest and wicked prince of Israel, the time for your final punishment has come.

¹⁶ ‘»Then all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

¹⁷ »You will know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through (invade) her any more.

² »As you judge, so you will be judged. As you measure, it will be measured to you.

⁵ Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. ⁶ He will render to each according to his works. ⁷ [He offers] everlasting life for those who search for incorruptible glory and honor by enduring in good works. ⁸ Those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will receive wrath and indignation. ⁹ [There will be] tribulation and distress on every person who works evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek. ¹⁰ [There will be] glory, honor and peace to every one who does good works, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.