King James Version
Ezekiel 21:6 in the King James Version says “Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.”
Ezekiel 21:6 · KJV
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD. shall be weak: Heb. shall go into water
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“therefore thou son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of thy loins”
H4975properly, the waist or small of the back; only in plural the loins
“before their eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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