Ezekiel 9:1
He also cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Bring near those who have charge over the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
Then he called out in a loud voice for me to hear, saying, 'Bring near those appointed to punish the city, each carrying his weapon of destruction in his hand.'
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Then he cried{H7121} in mine ears{H241} with a loud{H1419} voice,{H6963} saying,{H559} Cause ye them that have charge{H6486} over the city{H5892} to draw near,{H7126} every man{H376} with his destroying{H4892} weapon{H3627} in his hand.{H3027}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
He cried{H7121}{(H8799)} also in mine ears{H241} with a loud{H1419} voice{H6963}, saying{H559}{(H8800)}, Cause them that have charge{H6486} over the city{H5892} to draw near{H7126}{(H8804)}, even every man{H376} with his destroying{H4892} weapon{H3627} in his hand{H3027}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
He cried also with a loude voyce in myne eares, sayenge: Come here ye rulers of the cite, euery man with his weapened honde to the slaughter.
Geneva Bible (1560)
He cryed also with a loude voyce in mine eares, saying, The visitations of the citie draw neere, and euery man hath a weapon in his hande to destroy it.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
He cryed also with a loude voyce in mine eares, saying: Drawe neare ye visitations of the citie, euery man with a destroying weapon in his hande.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
¶ He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And He crieth in mine ears -- a loud voice -- saying, `Drawn near have inspectors of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand.'
American Standard Version (1901)
Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
American Standard Version (1901)
Then he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.
World English Bible (2000)
Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
The Execution of Idolaters Then he shouted in my ears,“Approach, you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”
Referenced Verses
- Isa 6:8 : 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.
- Isa 10:6-7 : 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Yet he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.
- Ezek 43:6-7 : 6 And I heard him speaking to me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no longer defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry or by the corpses of their kings on their high places.
- Amos 3:7-8 : 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets. 8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?
- Rev 1:10-11 : 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, like a trumpet, 11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.
- Rev 14:7 : 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea, and the springs of water.
- Exod 12:23 : 23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
- 2 Kgs 10:24 : 24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed eighty men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
- 1 Chr 21:15 : 15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD looked, and relented of the evil, and said to the angel who destroyed, It is enough, stay your hand now. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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2 And behold, six men came from the direction of the higher gate, which faces north, each with a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkwell by his side. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer's inkwell by his side;
4 And the LORD said to him, Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in it.
5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity:
6 Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.
7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.
8 And it happened, while they were killing them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in your pouring out of your fury upon Jerusalem?
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1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake; and cut them in the head, all of them. I will slay the last of them with the sword; he who flees from them shall not flee away, and he who escapes of them shall not be delivered.
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10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
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8 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fortified cities, and against the high towers.
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1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound, and to build a fort.
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9 And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
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2 And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in, in my sight.
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9 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?
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6 For the Lord has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
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14 Then the LORD said to me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
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21 And I said, What are these coming to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns that have scattered Judah so that no one could lift up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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16 Make mention to the nations; behold, proclaim against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
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18 For every builder had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me.
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9 The LORD'S voice cries to the city, and the man of wisdom will see Your name: Hear the rod, and who has appointed it.
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19 And I said to the angel who talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
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6 Howl; for the day of the LORD is near; it will come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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