Ezekiel 7:16 Cross References

Ezekiel 7:16

16: The few who survive and escape to the mountains will moan like doves, weeping for their sins.

Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane, and then I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help. I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!"

We growl like hungry bears; we moan like mournful doves. We look for justice, but it is nowhere to be found. We look to be rescued, but it is far away from us.

O LORD, God of Israel, you are just. We stand before you in our guilt as nothing but an escaped remnant, though in such a condition none of us can stand in your presence."

And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will take root again in your own soil, and you will flourish and multiply.

"But I will let a few of my people escape destruction, and they will be scattered among the nations of the world.
Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how grieved I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for other gods. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their wickedness.

"Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.
The sorrow and mourning in Jerusalem on that day will be like the grievous mourning of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
"All Israel will weep in profound sorrow, each family by itself, with the husbands and wives in separate groups. The family of David will mourn, along with the family of Nathan,
the family of Levi, and the family of Shimei.
Each of the surviving families from Judah will mourn separately, husbands and wives apart.

Of those who fled to Egypt with dreams of returning home to Judah, only a handful will escape."

Then you will remember your past sins and hate yourselves for all the evil things you did.

Afterward you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body,
and you will say, "How I hated discipline! If only I had not demanded my own way!
Oh, why didn't I listen to my teachers? Why didn't I pay attention to those who gave me instruction?
I have come to the brink of utter ruin, and now I must face public disgrace."

I have heard Israel saying, `You disciplined me severely, but I deserved it. I was like a calf that needed to be trained for the yoke and plow. Turn me again to you and restore me, for you alone are the LORD my God.
I turned away from God, but then I was sorry. I kicked myself for my stupidity! I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.'

"Then the people of Israel and Judah will join together," says the LORD, "weeping and seeking the LORD their God.
They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the LORD with an eternal covenant that will never again be broken.

If the LORD Almighty had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Tears of joy will stream down their faces, and I will lead them home with great care. They will walk beside quiet streams and not stumble. For I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my oldest child.

"Only a small number will escape death and return to Judah from Egypt. Then all those who came to Egypt will find out whose words are true, mine or theirs!

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