Ezekiel 4:8

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I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

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  • Ezek 3:25 : 25 And you, son of man, behold, they will bind you with ropes, so you cannot go out among the people.

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  • Ezek 4:1-7
    7 verses
    85%

    1Now, you, son of man, take a brick and set it before you; then inscribe on it the city of Jerusalem.

    2Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around.

    3Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Set your face against it, besiege it, and let it be under siege. This will be a sign for the house of Israel.

    4Lie on your left side and put the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on that side.

    5I assign you the years of their iniquity as the number of days—three hundred ninety days—during which you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

    6When you have completed these, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days, a day for each year. I have assigned you this period.

    7Direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

  • Ezek 4:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    9Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it.

    10The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day.

  • 25And you, son of man, behold, they will bind you with ropes, so you cannot go out among the people.

  • 14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • Ezek 12:4-8
    5 verses
    74%

    4Bring out your belongings as if for exile during the day, in their sight. Then, in the evening, leave in their sight, as if you were departing into exile.

    5In their sight, dig through the wall and carry your belongings through it.

    6Carry your things on your shoulder in their sight, at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.

    7So I did as I was commanded. By day, I brought out my belongings as if for exile. In the evening, I dug through the wall with my hands. I brought them out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.

    8Then in the morning, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 3I will encamp in a circle against you, I will besiege you with towers, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

  • 72%

    22You shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of mourning.

    23Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall waste away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

    24Thus Ezekiel shall be a sign to you. You shall do just as he has done. When this comes, you will know that I am the Lord God.

  • 8But any nation or kingdom that will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or place its neck under his yoke—I will punish that nation with sword, famine, and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand.

  • 43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

  • 14Will your heart stand firm? Will your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

  • 26When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

  • Ezek 4:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15He said to me, 'Look, I have given you cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may use it to bake your bread.'

    16Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.'

  • 2A third of it you shall burn in the fire within the city when the days of the siege are completed. Then you shall take another third and strike it with the sword all around the city. And the final third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe a sword to chase after them.

  • 17Behold, the LORD is about to hurl you away violently, O strong man! He will wrap you up tightly.

  • 4But now, behold, I have freed you today from the chains that were on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will look after you. But if it seems bad to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come. Look, the whole land is before you. Go to whatever place seems good and right to you.'

  • 4'If they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.'

  • 3And you will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and handed over to him. Your eyes will see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he will speak directly to you. You will go to Babylon.

  • 4"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am turning back the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. I will gather them into the midst of this city.

  • 2This is what the LORD instructed me: "Make for yourself chains and yokes, and place them on your neck.

  • 24Look! Siege ramps have arrived to take the city, and it is handed over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it because of the sword, the famine, and the plague. What You have spoken has come to pass, and You see it happening.

  • 16He has given it to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand; it is sharpened and polished to be placed in the hands of the slayer.

  • 11The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 16Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.

  • 52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • 8Say to the land of Israel, 'This is what the LORD says: Behold, I am against you. I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

  • Jer 1:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17But you, prepare yourself; rise and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.

    18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

  • 2I will turn you around, lead you astray, and bring you from the remote parts of the north onto the mountains of Israel.

  • 14The one who is bowed down will soon be set free; he will not die and go down to the pit, nor will he lack bread.

  • 9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them.

  • 8After many days, you will be called to attention. In the latter years, you will go against a land that has been brought back from the sword and gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. Its people were brought out from the nations, and now they dwell securely, all of them.

  • 20The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 4For this is what the LORD says: 'I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies while you watch, and I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, who will take them captive to Babylon or kill them by the sword.

  • 6Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 8Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 4"Take the waistband you bought and are wearing, arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."