Ezekiel 12:5
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New International Version (©2011)
While they watch, dig through the wall and take your belongings out through it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching and go out through it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
As they watch, dig through the wall and take the bags out through it.

International Standard Version (©2012)
While they continue to watch, dig a hole for yourself in the wall and enter through it.

NET Bible (©2006)
While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Dig a hole through the wall of your house, and leave through it.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out your belongings through it.

American King James Version
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

American Standard Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.

Darby Bible Translation
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

English Revised Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Webster's Bible Translation
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

World English Bible
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your stuff out that way.

Young's Literal Translation
Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:1-16 By the preparation for removal, and his breaking through the wall of his house at evening, as one desirous to escape from the enemy, the prophet signified the conduct and fate of Zedekiah. When God has delivered us, we must glorify him and edify others, by acknowledging our sins. Those who by afflictions are brought to this, are made to know that God is the Lord, and may help to bring others to know him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Dig thou through the wall in their sight,.... The wall of the house where he was, as an emblem of the city of Jerusalem closely besieged, from whence there was no escape but by digging through the wall this showed the manner in which Zedekiah made his escape, by the way of the gate, between the two walls which was by the king's garden, Jeremiah 52:7;

and carry out thereby; not his stuff, as before; but provisions for himself, necessary for his journey or flight; as no doubt Zedekiah and those with him did.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. Dig—as Zedekiah was to escape like one digging through a wall, furtively to effect an escape (Eze 12:12).

carry out—namely, "thy stuff" (Eze 12:4).

thereby—by the opening in the wall. Zedekiah escaped "by the gate betwixt the two walls" (Jer 39:4).

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Signs of the Coming Captivity
…4Then shall you bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and you shall go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. 5Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. 6In their sight shall you bear it on your shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: you shall cover your face, that you see not the ground: for I have set you for a sign to the house of Israel. …

Ezekiel 12:4 During the daytime, while they watch, bring out your belongings packed for exile. Then in the evening, while they are watching, go out like those who go into exile.
Ezekiel 12:6 Put them on your shoulder as they are watching and carry them out at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the Israelites."