Ezekiel 21:7

When asked why he sighs, Ezekiel is to point to the coming news that will make every heart melt and every hand feeble. Terror will overwhelm the people when judgment arrives.

Cross-references · 28

• Ezek 7:17Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.
• Heb 12:12Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
• Jer 50:43The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.
• Ezek 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
• Nah 2:10She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
• Isa 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
• Luke 21:26Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• Job 4:3–4Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
• Isa 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
• Ezek 7:2–12“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
• Ezek 24:19Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”
• Josh 5:1Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.
• Isa 28:19As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
• Ezek 20:49Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
• Josh 2:9–11and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.
• Ezek 12:22–28“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
• 2 Kgs 21:12this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
• Jer 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
• Exod 15:15Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,
• Isa 7:2When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.
• Deut 20:8Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
• 2 Sam 17:10Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
• Jer 6:22–24This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
• Jer 8:18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
• Lam 5:17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
• Ezek 12:9–11“Son of man, hasn’t the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ‘What are you doing?’
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Lev 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

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