I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.
Parallel translations
- WEB “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- KJV And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- NKJV “And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and execute judgments on you.
- NASB “And I will bring you out of the midst of the city, and hand you over to strangers, and execute judgments against you.
- NLT I will drive you out of Jerusalem and hand you over to foreigners, who will carry out my judgments against you.
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Quick answer
God will hand them over to foreigners and execute judgments among them. It specifies exile and conquest by Babylon as the means of judgment.
Overview
Being delivered "into the hands of strangers" points to the Babylonian conquest and deportation. God uses pagan nations as instruments of His righteous judgment on His people. Their false security in Jerusalem cannot prevent this appointed sentence. God's sovereign use of the nations reminds us that He rules over all history, directing it toward His redemptive purposes in Christ.
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Cross-references · 19
- Ezek 5:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
- Deut 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Ps 106:41He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
- Ezek 16:41Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
- Deut 28:49–50The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Ezek 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
- John 5:27And He has given Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
- Jer 5:15–17Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
- Eccl 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
- Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
- Neh 9:36–37So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!
- Ezek 21:31I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
- Ezek 30:19So I will execute judgment on Egypt, and they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezek 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Rom 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
- Ps 106:30But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
- Jer 39:6There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.
- Ezek 16:38And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.
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