Therefore my heart throbs like a harp for Moab, and my very soul for Kir-heres.
Ezekiel 21:6 - New Revised Standard Version Moan therefore, mortal; moan with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sigh therefore, son of man! With breaking heart and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes. American Standard Version (1901) Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes. Common English Bible You, human one, groan in their sight; groan bitterly with trembling knees. Catholic Public Domain Version And as for you, son of man, groan in the breaking of your back, and groan in bitterness before them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou, son of man, mourn with the breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness sigh before them. |
Therefore my heart throbs like a harp for Moab, and my very soul for Kir-heres.
Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
Therefore I said: Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.
Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent; for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Cry and wail, O mortal, for it is against my people; it is against all Israel's princes; they are thrown to the sword, together with my people. Ah! Strike the thigh!
and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.
And when they say to you, “Why do you moan?” you shall say, “Because of the news that has come. Every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will turn to water. See, it comes and it will be fulfilled,” says the Lord God.
Mortal, wail over the hordes of Egypt, and send them down, with Egypt and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, with those who go down to the Pit.
When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,
You shall eat it as a barley-cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.
Thus says the Lord God: Clap your hands and stamp your foot, and say, Alas for all the vile abominations of the house of Israel! For they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
Then the king's face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
So I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days; then I arose and went about the king's business. But I was dismayed by the vision and did not understand it.
Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble, all loins quake, all faces grow pale!
I hear, and I tremble within; my lips quiver at the sound. Rottenness enters into my bones, and my steps tremble beneath me. I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us.