“And I will bring you out of the midst of the city, and hand you over to strangers, and 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.
- BSB I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.
- NKJV “And I will bring you out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and execute judgments on 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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- Ezek 5:8therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
- Deut 28:36Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
- Ps 106:41He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.
- Ezek 16:41They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you will also give no hire any more.
- Deut 28:49–50Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you will not understand;
- Ezek 5:10Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
- John 5:27He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
- Jer 5:15–17Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know, neither understand what they say.
- Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- Jude 1:15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
- Neh 9:36–37“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
- Ezek 21:31I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
- 2 Kgs 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.
- Ezek 30:19Thus will I execute judgments on Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes — I, Yahweh, have spoken it —
- Rom 13:4for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
- Ps 106:30Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
- Jer 39:6Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
- Ezek 16:38I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
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