Ezekiel 31:11
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Ezekiel 31:11 in other translations
| BSB | I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it. |
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| WEB | I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. |
| ASV | I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness. |
| YLT | I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out. |
| DARBY | I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. |
| BBE | I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out. |
| Webster | I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. |
What does Ezekiel 31:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 31:10-18
The king of Egypt resembled the king of Assyria in his greatness: here we see he resembles him in his pride. And he shall resemble him in his fall. His own sin brings his ruin. None of our comforts are ever lost, but what have been a thousand times forfeited. When great men fall, many fall with them, as many have fallen before them. The fall of proud men is for warning to others, to keep them humble. See how low…
Ezekiel 31:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 31:11
- Ezekiel 32:11-12
For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
- Daniel 5:18-19
O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
- Nahum 3:18
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
- Deuteronomy 18:12
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
- James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
- Ezekiel 11:9
And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
- Matthew 7:1-2
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
- Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
- Ezekiel 23:28
For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
- Lamentations 1:21
They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
- Leviticus 18:24-28
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) …
- Judges 16:23
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
11:9; 21:31; 23:28; Jud 16:23; 1Ti 1:20
the mighty.Nebuchadnezzar, the subverter of the Assyrian empire.
32:11,12; Jer 25:9; Da 5:18,19
he shall surely deal with him. Heb. in doing he shall dounto him.
Jud 1:7; Mt 7:1,2; Jas 2:13
I have driven.
Le 18:24-28; 20:22,23; De 18:12; La 1:21; Na 3:18
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Context
- Ezekiel 31:10
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
- Ezekiel 31:11
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
- Ezekiel 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Ezekiel 31:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Yo lo entregaré en mano del fuerte de las gentes, que de cierto le manejará: por su impiedad lo he arrojado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | je l’ai livré en la main du puissant des nations; il l’a traité à son gré. Je l’ai chassé à cause de son iniquité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so werde ich ihn in die Hand des Mächtigen der Nationen geben; nach seiner Bosheit soll er mit ihm handeln; ich habe ihn verstoßen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | tradidi eum in manu fortissimi gentium: faciens faciet ei: juxta impietatem ejus ejeci eum. |