A moment in scripture
Ezekiel 21:6
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
The surrounding passage
- Ezekiel 21:4
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:
- Ezekiel 21:5
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
- Ezekiel 21:7
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.
- Ezekiel 21:8
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.