Ezekiel 19:7
New International Version
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring.

New Living Translation
He demolished fortresses and destroyed their towns and cities. Their farms were desolated, and their crops were destroyed. The land and its people trembled in fear when they heard him roar.

English Standard Version
and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.

Berean Standard Bible
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

King James Bible
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

New King James Version
He knew their desolate places, And laid waste their cities; The land with its fullness was desolated By the noise of his roaring.

New American Standard Bible
‘He destroyed their palaces And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

NASB 1995
‘He destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fullness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

NASB 1977
‘And he destroyed their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land and its fulness were appalled Because of the sound of his roaring.

Legacy Standard Bible
He knew how to destroy their fortified towers And laid waste their cities; And the land was in desolation, as well as its fullness Because of the sound of his roaring.

Amplified Bible
‘He destroyed their palaces And he flattened their cities; And the land and all who were in it were appalled By the sound of his roaring.

Christian Standard Bible
He devastated their strongholds and destroyed their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He devastated their strongholds and destroyed their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

American Standard Version
And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he walked in his strength and he ravaged the cities and destroyed the land in its fullness with the sound of his roaring

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

Contemporary English Version
He destroyed fortresses and ruined towns; his mighty roar terrified everyone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He destroyed fortresses and turned cities into wastelands. The land and everyone living in it were terrified by the sound of his roar.

Good News Translation
He wrecked forts, he ruined towns. The people of the land were terrified every time he roared.

International Standard Version
He raped the women, devastating their towns. The land was made desolate, and all the while the land was filled with the sound of his roaring.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he knew their castles, And laid waste their cities; And the land was desolate, And the fulness thereof, Because of the noise of his roaring.

Literal Standard Version
And he knows his forsaken habitations, | And he has laid waste [to] their cities, | And the land and its fullness is desolate, | Because of the voice of his roaring.

Majority Standard Bible
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

New American Bible
He ravaged their strongholds, laid waste their cities. The earth and everything in it were terrified at the sound of his roar.

NET Bible
He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

New Revised Standard Version
And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their towns; the land was appalled, and all in it, at the sound of his roaring.

New Heart English Bible
He devastated their strongholds, and destroyed their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, by the noise of his roaring.

World English Bible
He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities. The land was desolate with its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

Young's Literal Translation
And it knoweth his forsaken habitations, And their cities it hath laid waste, And desolate is the land and its fulness, Because of the voice of his roaring.

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Context
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
6He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men. 7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring. 8Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.…

Cross References
Ezekiel 19:6
He prowled among the lions, and became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:8
Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.

Ezekiel 45:8
This land will be his possession in Israel. And My princes will no longer oppress My people, but will give the rest of the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.


Treasury of Scripture

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

desolate places.

Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

Proverbs 19:12
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Proverbs 28:3,15,16
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food…

the fulness

Ezekiel 12:19
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

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Ezekiel 19
1. A lamentation for the princes of Israel, by the parable of a lion whelping in a pit
10. and for Jerusalem, under the parable of a wasted vine














(7) Knew their desolate palaces.--This verse continues to describe the abominations of Jehoiachin's ways. The word "desolate palaces," although defended by some authorities, should be rendered, as in the margin, widows. The mention of the king's violation of these is an unavoidable departure from the figure, such as often occurs in Ezekiel.

Verse 7. - He knew their desolate palaces; literally, widows; but the word is used figuratively in Isaiah 13:22, in the sense of "desolate houses" (comp. Isaiah 47:8). So the Vulgate gives didicit viduas facere; and Keil adopts that meaning here, "he knew, i.e. outraged, the widows of Israel." The Revised Version admits it in the margin. The two words for "widows" and "palaces" differ in a single letter only, and there may have been an error in transcription. On the whole, I adhere to the Authorized Version and Revised Version (text). Currey explains, "He knew (i.e. eyed with satisfaction) his palaces," from which he had ejected their former owners, as his father Jeboiakim had done (Jeremiah 22:15, 16). Ewald follows the Targum in a various reading of the verb, and gets the meaning, "he destroyed its palaces." Interpreting the parable, we have Jehoiachin described as alarming Nebuchadnezzar and the neighbouring nations by his activity, and therefore carried off to Babylon as Jehoahaz lad been to Egypt. The young lion was to roar in chains, not on the "mountains of Israel."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He broke down
וַיֵּ֙דַע֙ (way·yê·ḏa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

their strongholds
אַלְמְנוֹתָ֔יו (’al·mə·nō·w·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 490: A widow, a desolate place

and devastated
הֶחֱרִ֑יב (he·ḥĕ·rîḇ)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2717: To parch, to desolate, destroy, kill

their cities.
וְעָרֵיהֶ֖ם (wə·‘ā·rê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5892: Excitement

The land
אֶ֙רֶץ֙ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

and all who were in it
וּמְלֹאָ֔הּ (ū·mə·lō·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4393: Fullness, that which fills

shuddered
וַתֵּ֤שַׁם (wat·tê·šam)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 3456: To be desolate

at the sound
מִקּ֖וֹל (miq·qō·wl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of his roaring.
שַׁאֲגָתֽוֹ׃ (ša·’ă·ḡā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7581: A rumbling, moan


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