Ezekiel 21:6
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Cross-reference
In Ezekiel 21:12, the prophet is commanded to cry and wail over the same sword judgment — reinforcing the call to lament here.
Ezekiel 32:18 commands a lament over Egypt — another sign-act of mourning for judgment, closely parallel to the groaning commanded here.
Ezekiel 6:11 also uses symbolic acts (clap, stamp, 'Alas!') to mourn coming judgment by sword — similar prophetic lament style.
Ezekiel 9:4 describes those who sigh over abominations being marked for preservation — contrasting with the prophet's sigh over their destruction.
Isaiah 21:3 describes loins filled with pain and travail, directly mirroring the physical anguish Ezekiel is commanded to display.
In Isaiah 22:4, the prophet weeps bitterly over the destruction of his people — the same bitter grief Ezekiel is commanded to show here.
Jeremiah 4:19 shows the prophet writhing in anguish at the sound of war — mirroring the broken-hearted sighing commanded for Ezekiel.
Jeremiah 9:17-21 summons wailing women to lament the dead — reinforcing the public mourning Ezekiel is to enact over the coming slaughter.
Jeremiah 30:6 depicts men with hands on loins like women in travail, the same visceral reaction of distress seen in Ezekiel's sighing.
Daniel 5:6 shows Belshazzar's loins loosed and knees knocking—physical terror that matches the broken loins of Ezekiel's sign.
Nahum 2:10 explicitly mentions 'pain in all loins' amid judgment, the exact physical symptom Ezekiel enacts.
Jeremiah 19:10 also uses a prophetic sign-act (breaking a flask) to symbolize coming judgment, parallel to Ezekiel's commanded groaning.
Isaiah 16:11 uses inward anguish ('bowels sound like harp') for Moab, paralleling Ezekiel's sighing as a prophetic sign of judgment.
Jeremiah 6:24 depicts the same anguish—hands fall helpless, pain like labor—as the reaction to judgment Ezekiel's groaning foreshadows.
Habakkuk 3:16 describes trembling, quivering lips, and rottenness in bones—a parallel physical reaction of dread to God's judgment.