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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 25:17 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Eze 25:17	Strong Concordance	And I will execute [06213] great [01419] vengeance [05360] upon them with furious [02534] rebukes [08433]; and they shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068], when I shall lay [05414] my vengeance [05360] upon them.
	King James	And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
know . . . vengeance--They shall know Me, not in mercy, but by My vengeance on them (Psa 9:16). In the twenty-sixth chapter, Ezekiel sets forth:--(1) Tyre's sin; (2) its doom; (3) the instruments executing it; (4) the effects produced on other nations by her downfall. In the twenty-seventh chapter, a lamentation over the fall of such earthly splendor. In the twenty-eighth chapter, an elegy addressed to the king, on the humiliation of his sacrilegious pride. Ezekiel, in his prophecies as to the heathen, exhibits the dark side only; because he views them simply in their hostility to the people of God, who shall outlive them all. Isaiah (Isa. 23:1-18), on the other hand, at the close of judgments, holds out the prospect of blessing, when Tyre should turn to the Lord.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

know . . . vengeance--They shall know Me, not in mercy, but by My vengeance on them (Psa 9:16).

In the twenty-sixth chapter, Ezekiel sets forth:--(1) Tyre's sin; (2) its doom; (3) the instruments executing it; (4) the effects produced on other nations by her downfall. In the twenty-seventh chapter, a lamentation over the fall of such earthly splendor. In the twenty-eighth chapter, an elegy addressed to the king, on the humiliation of his sacrilegious pride. Ezekiel, in his prophecies as to the heathen, exhibits the dark side only; because he views them simply in their hostility to the people of God, who shall outlive them all. Isaiah (Isa. 23:1-18), on the other hand, at the close of judgments, holds out the prospect of blessing, when Tyre should turn to the Lord.

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¹⁶ The LORD [03068] is known [03045] by the judgment [04941] which he executeth [06213]: the wicked [07563] is snared [05367] in the work [06467] of his own hands [03709]. Higgaion [01902]. Selah [05542].