Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- BSB You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD.
- NKJV You have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you,” says the Lord God.
- NASB You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” the Lord God declares.
- NLT I will bring on you the sword of war you so greatly fear, says the Sovereign Lord.
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Quick answer
God declares that the sword they feared He will bring upon them. It announces that their dreaded judgment will indeed come.
Overview
Their fear of the sword will be realized precisely because they refused to repent. God's word ensures that the judgment they dreaded is now decreed. There is no escaping the consequences of persistent rebellion. Yet the same God who brings the sword in justice offers refuge from wrath to all who turn to Him through Christ.
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- Prov 10:24The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
- Job 3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
- Isa 24:17–18Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Isa 66:4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
- Jer 42:14–16Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
- Amos 9:1–4I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
- Jer 44:12–13And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
- Jer 38:19–23And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
- Isa 30:16–17But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
- John 11:48If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
- Job 20:24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
- 1 Th 2:15–16Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
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