Ezekiel 13:5 “You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of…”

Ezekiel 13:5

You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

World English Bible

You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the LORD’s day.

American Standard Version

Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye haue not risen vp in the gappes, neither made vp the hedge for ye house of Israel, to stand in the battel in the daye of the Lord.

Darby Translation

Ye have not gone up into the breaches, nor made up the fence for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.

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Cross references

“have not”

Ezekiel 22:30 Psalm 106:23 Jeremiah 23:22 Jeremiah 27:18 Exodus 17:9–13 1 Samuel 12:23

Ezekiel 22:30 · BSB

I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

Psalm 106:23 · BSB

So He said He would destroy them— had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Jeremiah 23:22 · BSB

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

Jeremiah 27:18 · BSB

If they are indeed prophets and the word of the LORD is with them, let them now plead with the LORD of Hosts that the articles remaining in the house of the LORD, in the palace of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, not…

Exodus 17:9–13 · BSB

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

1 Samuel 12:23 · BSB

As for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you the good and right way.

“gaps”

Isaiah 58:12 Lamentations 2:13 Lamentations 2:14

Isaiah 58:12 · BSB

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.

Lamentations 2:13 · BSB

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

Lamentations 2:14 · BSB

The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

“to stand”

Revelation 16:14 Job 40:9 Psalm 76:7 Isaiah 27:4 Ephesians 6:13 Ephesians 6:14

Revelation 16:14 · BSB

These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Job 40:9 · BSB

Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Psalm 76:7 · BSB

You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?

Isaiah 27:4 · BSB

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

Ephesians 6:13 · BSB

Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.

Ephesians 6:14 · BSB

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,

“the day”

Isaiah 13:6 Isaiah 13:9 Ezekiel 30:3 Joel 1:15 Joel 2:1 Joel 2:31

Isaiah 13:6 · BSB

Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13:9 · BSB

Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

Ezekiel 30:3 · BSB

For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

Joel 1:15 · BSB

Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Joel 2:1 · BSB

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

Joel 2:31 · BSB

The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

Also

Ezekiel 7:19

Ezekiel 7:19 · BSB

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.

6They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.

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