Ezekiel Chapter 21 verse 6 Holy Bible

ASV Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.
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BBE Ezekiel 21:6

Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.
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DARBY Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh then, thou son of man; with breaking of the loins, and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
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KJV Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
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WBT Ezekiel 21:6


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WEB Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your loins and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.
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YLT Ezekiel 21:6

And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Sigh therefore, etc. As in other instances (Ezekiel 4:4; Ezekiel 5:1-4), the prophet dramatizes the coming calamity. He is to act the part of a mourner, whose sighs are so deep that they seem to "break his loins" (compare, for the gesture, Nahum 2:1, 10 Isaiah 21:3; Jeremiah 30:6). The strange action was meant to lead to questions. What did it mean? And then he is to answer that he does it "for the tidings" which are to him as certain as if they had already come. He is but doing what all would do, when the messenger brought word, as in Ezekiel 33:21, five years later, that the city was at last smitten.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) With the breaking of thy loins.--The loins were regarded as the seat of strength (Job 40:16); and the breaking of these, therefore, expresses entire prostration. Comp. Psalm 66:11; Psalm 69:23; Isaiah 21:3; Nahum 2:10. The prophet was to do this "before their eyes," i.e., was in some way to express before them a sense of extreme dejection and prostration, such as should call forth the question and reply of the following verse. With the expression "Every heart shall melt" comp. Luke 21:26. . . .