Ezekiel 12:25
Good News Translation
I, the LORD, will speak to them, and what I say will be done. There will be no more delay. In your own lifetime, you rebels, I will do what I have warned you I would do. I have spoken," says the Sovereign LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
But I the LORD will speak the word that I speak, and it will be fulfilled. It will no longer be delayed; but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and fulfill it, says the Lord GOD.

Contemporary English Version
I will give them my message, and what I say will certainly happen. Warn those rebels that the time has come for them to be punished. I, the LORD, make this promise.

New American Bible
for whatever word I speak shall happen without delay. In your days, rebellious house, whatever I speak I will bring about—oracle of the Lord GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.

I will

Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 6:10 And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them.

Numbers 14:28-34 Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you. . . .

Isaiah 14:24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Lamentations 2:17 Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.

Daniel 9:12 And he hath confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and against our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a great evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that which hath been done in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1:6 But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Luke 21:13,33 And it shall happen unto you for a testimony. . . .

in your

Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Habakkuk 1:5 Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

Mark 13:30,31 Amen, I say to you that this generation shall not pass until all these things be done. . . .

O rebellious

Ezekiel 12:1,2 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

Context
The Presumptuous Proverb
24For there shall be no more any vain visions, nor doubtful divination in the midst of the children of Israel. 25For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.26And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:…
Cross References
Numbers 11:23
And the Lord answered him: Is the hand of the Lord unable? Thou shalt presently see whether my word shall come to pass or no.

Numbers 14:28
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

Isaiah 14:24
The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,

Jeremiah 16:9
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Ezekiel 6:10
And they shall know that I the Lord have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them.

Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a provoking house: who have eyes to see, and see not: and ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a provoking house.

Ezekiel 12:26
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 12:28
Therefore say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: not one word of mine shall be prolonged any more: the word that I shall speak shall be accomplished, saith the Lord God.

Habakkuk 1:5
Behold ye among the nations, and see: wonder, and be astonished: for a work is done in your days, which no man will believe when it shall be told.

Habakkuk 2:3
For as yet the vision is far off, and it shall appear at the end, and shall not lie: if it make any delay, wait for it: for it shall surely come, and it shall not be slack.

Ezekiel 12:24
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