Ezekiel 19:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.

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  • Ezek 12:13 : 13 And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.
  • Ezek 19:4 : 4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 17:20 : 20 My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.
  • 2 Kgs 24:1-6 : 1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him. 2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets. 3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did; 4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it. 5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? 6 So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
  • 2 Kgs 24:11 : 11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
  • Lam 4:20 : 20 Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 9 They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.

  • 4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.

  • 20 My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

  • 13 And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

  • 15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • 7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • Job 18:7-11
    5 verses
    76%

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

    8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

    9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

    11 He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.

  • 22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

    8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • 3 This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

  • 22 And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.

  • 9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • 17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

  • 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • 19 Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.

  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • 38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

  • 12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

  • 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

  • 24 I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.

  • 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

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    11 I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.

    12 And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

  • 15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • 17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • 15 He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

  • 11 For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • 7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

  • 11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • 2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

  • 12 When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

  • 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

  • 17 For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.

  • 12 To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.

  • 11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

  • 17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

  • 19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • 25 For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.

  • 6 And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.

  • 10 But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.