Ezekiel 11:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

📖 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 feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.
• Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, and a snare, and a gin, `Are' on thee, O inhabitant of the land. 18 And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.
• Job 3:25 : 25 For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.
• Isa 66:4 : 4 I also -- I fix on their vexations, And their fears I bring in to them, Because I have called, and there is none answering, I spake, and they have not hearkened, And they do the evil things in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.
• Jer 38:19-23 : 19 And the king Zedekiah saith unto Jeremiah, `I am fearing the Jews who have fallen unto the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand, and they have insulted me.' 20 And Jeremiah saith, `They do not give thee up; hearken, I pray thee, to the voice of Jehovah, to that which I am speaking unto thee, and it is well for thee, and thy soul doth live. 21 `And if thou art refusing to go forth, this `is' the thing that Jehovah hath shewn me: 22 That, lo, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, and lo, they are saying: Persuaded thee, and prevailed against thee, Have thine allies, Sunk into mire have thy feet, They have been turned backward. 23 `And all thy wives, and thy sons, are brought forth unto the Chaldeans, and thou dost not escape from their hand, for by the hand of the king of Babylon thou art caught, and this city is burnt with fire.'
• Jer 42:14-16 : 14 saying, No; but the land of Egypt we enter, that we see no war, and the sound of a trumpet do not hear, and for bread be not hungry; and there do we dwell. 15 And now, therefore, hear ye a word of Jehovah, O remnant of Judah: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: If ye really set your faces to enter Egypt, and have gone in to sojourn there, 16 then it hath come to pass, the sword that ye are afraid of, doth there overtake you, in the land of Egypt; and the hunger, because of which ye are sorrowful, doth there cleave after you in Egypt, and there ye die.
• Jer 44:12-13 : 12 and I have taken the remnant of Judah, who have set their faces to enter the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they have all been consumed in the land of Egypt; they fall by sword, by famine they are consumed, from the least even unto the greatest, by sword and by famine they die, and they have been for an execration, for an astonishment, and for a reviling, and for a reproach. 13 `And I have seen after those dwelling in the land of Egypt, as I saw after Jerusalem, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence,
• Amos 9:1-4 : 1 I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head -- all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive. 2 If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down. 3 And if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them, And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent, And it hath bitten them. 4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From thence I command the sword, And it hath slain them, And I have set Mine eye on them for evil, And not for good.
• John 11:48 : 48 if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
• 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary, 16 forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them -- to the end!
• Job 20:24 : 24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.
• Isa 30:16-17 : 16 And ye say, No, for on a horse we flee? Therefore ye flee, And on the swift we ride! Therefore swift are your pursuers. 17 One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.