Ezekiel 31:11 “I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to d…”

Ezekiel 31:11

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue therefore deliuered him into the handes of the mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I haue cast him away for his wickednesse.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“delivered”

Ezekiel 11:9 Ezekiel 21:31 Ezekiel 23:28 Judges 16:23 1 Timothy 1:20

Ezekiel 11:9 · BSB

I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.

Ezekiel 21:31 · BSB

I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.

Ezekiel 23:28 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.

Judges 16:23 · BSB

Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

1 Timothy 1:20 · BSB

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

“the mighty”

Jeremiah 25:9 Ezekiel 32:11 Ezekiel 32:12 Daniel 5:18 Daniel 5:19

Jeremiah 25:9 · BSB

behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surro…

Ezekiel 32:11 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!

Ezekiel 32:12 · BSB

I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.

Daniel 5:18 · BSB

As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor.

Daniel 5:19 · BSB

Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he…

“he shall surely deal with him”

Judges 1:7 James 2:13 Matthew 7:1 Matthew 7:2

Judges 1:7 · BSB

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

James 2:13 · BSB

For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Matthew 7:1 · BSB

“Do not judge, or you will be judged.

Matthew 7:2 · BSB

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

“I have driven”

Deuteronomy 18:12 Nahum 3:18 Leviticus 18:24–28 Lamentations 1:21 Leviticus 20:22 Leviticus 20:23

Deuteronomy 18:12 · BSB

For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things, the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.

Nahum 3:18 · BSB

O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

Leviticus 18:24–28 · BSB

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Lamentations 1:21 · BSB

People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

Leviticus 20:22 · BSB

You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

Leviticus 20:23 · BSB

You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

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

In context

10Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

12Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

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