New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 33:21-29

21Now 1in the 2twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth of the tenth month, the survivor from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “3The city has been 4taken.” 22Now the 5hand of the Lord had been upon me in the evening, before the survivors came. And He 6opened my mouth 7at the time they came to me in the morning; so my mouth was 8opened and I was no longer 9speechless.

23Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24“Son of man, they who 10live in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘11Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to 12us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’ 25Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “You eat meat with the 13blood in it, raise your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. 14Should you then possess the land? 26You 15 16rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?”’ 27You shall say this to them: ‘This is what the Lord God says: “As I live, those who are in the places of ruins certainly will 17fall by the sword, and whoever is in the 18open field I will give to the animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the 19caves will die of plague. 28And I will 20make the land a desolation and a waste, and the 21pride of her power will be brought to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be deserted so that no one will pass through. 29Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 33:21 Ezek 31:1; 32:1, 17 ↩
2. Ezekiel 33:21 Jer 39:1, 2; 40:1; 52:4-7; Ezek 24:1, 2 ↩
3. Ezekiel 33:21 2 Kin 25:10; Jer 39:8 ↩
4. Ezekiel 33:21 Lit struck ↩
5. Ezekiel 33:22 Ezek 1:3; 8:1; 37:1 ↩
6. Ezekiel 33:22 Ezek 3:26, 27; 24:27 ↩
7. Ezekiel 33:22 Lit until he came ↩
8. Ezekiel 33:22 Luke 1:64 ↩
9. Ezekiel 33:22 Or mute ↩
10. Ezekiel 33:24 Jer 39:10; 40:7; Ezek 33:27 ↩
11. Ezekiel 33:24 Is 51:2; Luke 3:8; Acts 7:5; Rom 4:12 ↩
12. Ezekiel 33:24 Ezek 11:15 ↩
13. Ezekiel 33:25 Lev 17:10, 12, 14; Deut 12:16, 23; 15:23 ↩
14. Ezekiel 33:25 Jer 7:9, 10 ↩
15. Ezekiel 33:26 Lit stand ↩
16. Ezekiel 33:26 Mic 2:1, 2; Zeph 3:3 ↩
17. Ezekiel 33:27 Jer 15:2, 3; 42:22; Ezek 5:12 ↩
18. Ezekiel 33:27 Lit faces of the field ↩
19. Ezekiel 33:27 1 Sam 13:6; Is 2:19 ↩
20. Ezekiel 33:28 Ezek 5:14; 6:14; Mic 7:13 ↩
21. Ezekiel 33:28 Ezek 7:24; 24:21; 30:6 ↩

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