Therefore my soul moans like a lyre for Moab, and my heart for Kir-heres.
Ezekiel 21:6 - Revised Standard Version Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh 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 soul moans like a lyre for Moab, and my heart for Kir-heres.
Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in travail; 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 labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,
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, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all the princes of Israel; they are delivered over to the sword with my people. Smite therefore upon your 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 sigh?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,’ ” says the Lord God.
“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the nether world, to those who have gone down to the Pit:
When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,
And 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! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
And the Lord said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”
Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days; then I rose and went about the king's business; but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.