◄ Ezekiel 19:8 ►
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Good News Translation
The nations gathered to fight him; people came from everywhere. They spread their hunting nets and caught him in their trap.

New Revised Standard Version
The nations set upon him from the provinces all around; they spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

Contemporary English Version
Nations plotted to kill him, and people came from all over to spread out a net and catch him in a trap.

New American Bible
Nations laid out against him snares all around; They spread their net for him, in their pit he was caught.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.

the nations

2 Kings 24:1-6 In his days Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon came up, and Joakim became his servant three years: then again he rebelled against him. . . .

and spread

Ezekiel 19:4 And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 12:13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the transgression by which he hath despised me.

Lamentations 4:20 Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in our sins: to whom we said: Under thy shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
…7He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring. 8And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.9And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.…
Cross References
2 Kings 24:11
And Nabuchodonosor, king of Babylon, came to the city, with his servants, to assault it.

Ezekiel 12:13
And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

Ezekiel 19:7
He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:7
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