Ezekiel 11:8

Coverdale Bible (1535)

ye haue drawe out ye swearde, eue so wil I also bringe a swearde ouer you, saieth ye LORDE God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֶ֖רֶב יְרֵאתֶ֑ם וְחֶ֙רֶב֙ אָבִ֣יא עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

Transliteration

ḥereb yərēʾtem and-ḥereb ʾābîʾ upon-you (plural) nəʾum ʾădōnāy Yhwh

Grammar Details

• *ḥereb*: feminine singular noun - sword
• *yərēʾtem*: qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - you have feared
• *ʾābîʾ*: hiphil imperfect 1st singular - I will bring
• *nəʾum*: masculine singular construct - declaration of
• *ʾădōnāy*: noun with 1st singular suffix as divine title - my Lord
• *Yhwh*: proper noun - YHWH/LORD

Word Meanings

• *ḥereb*: sword/drought/cutting instrument
• *nəʾum*: declaration/utterance/oracle

Referenced Verses

• Prov 10:24 : 24 The thinge that the vngodly are afrayed of, shal come vpon them, but the rightuous shal haue their desyre.
• Isa 24:17-18 : 17 And therfore, (o thou that dwellest vpon the earth) there is at hode for the, feare, pyt and snare. 18 Who so escapeth the terrible crie, shal fall in to the pyt. And yf he come out of the pyt, he shalbe take with the snare. For the wyndowes aboue shalbe opened, and the foundacion of the earth shal moue.
• Job 3:25 : 25 For the thynge that I feared, is come vpon me: and the thynge that I was afrayed of, is happened vnto me.
• Isa 66:4 : 4 Therfore wil I also haue pleasure in laughinge them to scorne, and the thinge that they feare, wil I bringe vpon the. For when I called, no man gaue answere: when I spake, they wolde not heare: But dyd wickednesse before myne eyes, & chose the thinges that displease me.
• Jer 38:19-23 : 19 And Sedechias sayde vnto Ieremy: I am afrayde for the Iewes, that are fled vnto the Caldees, lest I come in their hodes, and so they to haue me in derision. 20 But Ieremy answerde: No, they shal not betraye the: O herken vnto the voyce off the LORDE (I beseke ye) which I speake vnto the, so shalt thou be well, and saue thy life. 21 But yf thou wilt not go forth, the LORDE hath tolde me this planely: 22 Beholde, all the women that are left in the kynge of Iudaes house, shal go out to the kynge of Babilons prynces. For they thynke, yt thou art disceaued: and that ye men in whom thou didest put thy trust, haue gotten the vnder, and set thy fete fast in the myre, and gone their waye from the. 23 Therfore all thy wyues with their children shall fle vnto the Caldees, and thou shalt not escape their hondes, but shalt be ye kynge of Babilons presoner, & this cite shall be brent.
• Jer 42:14-16 : 14 but will saye thus: we will not dwell here, but go in to Egipte: where we shall nether se warre, heare the noyse off batell, ner suffre honger, there will we dwell. 15 Wherfore heare now the worde of the LORDE, o ye remnaunt of Iuda. Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel: Yf ye be whole purposed to go in to Egipte, ad to be there as straugers: 16 the swearde that ye feare, shall ouertake you in Egipte: and the honger wheroff ye be here afrayed, shall hange vpon you into Egipte, and there ye shall dye.
• Jer 44:12-13 : 12 As for the remnaunt off Iuda that purposly wente in to Egipte, there to ease them off their mysery: I will take them, and they shall all be destroyed. In ye londe of Egipte shall they perishe, beynge consumed with the swearde and with honger. For from ye leest vnto ye most, they shal perishe with the swearde and with honger. Morouer they shalbe reuyled, abhorred, shamed, and confounded. 13 For I will viset them that dwell in Egipte, as I haue visited Ierusalem: with the swearde, with honger and with pestilence:
• Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I sawe the LORDE stondinge vpon the aulter, and he sayde: smyte the dore cheke, that the postes maye shake withall. For their couetousnesse shal fall vpon all their heades, and their posterite shalbe slayne with the swerde. They shall not fle awaye, there shall not one off them escape, ner be delyuered. 2 Though they were buryed in the hell, my honde shal fetch them from thence: though they clymme vp to heauen, yet shal I cast them downe: 3 though they hyde them selues vpo the toppe of Carmel, yet shal I seke them out, and brynge them from thence: Though they crepe downe fro my sight in to the depe of the see, I shal comaude the serpente, euen there to byte them. 4 Yff they go awaye before their enemies i to captyuyte, then shall I commaunde the swerde, there to slaye them. Thus wil I set myne eyes vpon them, for their harme and not for their wealth.
• John 11:48 : 48 Yf we let him go thus, all me wyl beleue in him: the shal the Romaynes come, and take awaye oure londe and people.
• 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Which as they put the LORDE Iesus to death, and their awne prophetes, euen so haue they persecuted vs also, and please not God, and are cotrary to all men, 16 forbyddinge vs to speake vnto the Heythen that they mighte be saued, to fulfill their synnes allwaye: for the wrath is come vpon them allready vnto ye vttemost.
• Job 20:24 : 24 so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe.
• Isa 30:16-17 : 16 Notwithstondinge ye regarde it not, but ye will saie: No, for thus are we costrayned to fle vpo horses. (And therfore shall ye fle) we must ryde vpon swift beastes, and therfore youre persecutours shal yet be swifter. 17 A thousand of you shal fle for one, or at the most for fyue, which do but only geue you euell wordes: vntil ye be desolate, as a shipmast vpon an hie mountayne, and as a beaken vpon an hill.