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 7:17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
• Heb 12:12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
• Jer 50:43The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
• Ezek 7:26Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
• Nah 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
• Isa 13:7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
• Luke 21:26Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
• Job 4:3–4Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
• Isa 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
• Ezek 7:2–12Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
• Ezek 24:19And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
• Josh 5:1And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
• Isa 28:19From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
• Ezek 20:49Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
• Josh 2:9–11And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
• Ezek 12:22–28Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?
• 2 Kgs 21:12Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
• Jer 49:23Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
• Exod 15:15Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
• Isa 7:2And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
• Deut 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
• 2 Sam 17:10And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
• Jer 6:22–24Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
• Jer 8:18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
• Lam 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
• Ezek 12:9–11Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• Lev 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

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