Ezekiel 33:21-33 ▼

21 And it came to pass, in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, that an escapee came to me from Jerusalem, and he said, “The city has been struck!”

22 And the hand of YHWH had been upon me in the evening, before the coming of the escapee, and He had opened my mouth until his coming to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was not mute any longer.

23 And the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

24 “Son of man, those dwelling in these ruins in the land of Israel are speaking, saying: ‘Abraham was one, and he possessed the land; and we are many—to us the land has been given as a possession!’

25 Therefore say to them, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘You⁺ eat that with the blood, and you⁺ lift up your⁺ eyes toward your⁺ idols, and you⁺ pour out blood—and you⁺ would possess the land?

26 You⁺ rely on your⁺ sword, you⁺ commit abominations, and each man defiles the wife of his neighbor—and you⁺ would possess the land?’

27 Thus you shall say to them, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘As I live, surely those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, and the one who is upon the face of the field I will give to the beasts to eat him, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die by the pestilence.

28 And I will give the land as a desolation and a horror, and will cease the pride of its strength, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate, with no one passing through!

29 And they will know that I am YHWH, in My giving the land as a desolation and a horror, because of all their abominations that they have done.’

30 And you, son of man, the sons of your people are speaking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses, and they speak one to to another, a man to his brother, saying: ‘Come, now, and hear what is the word coming forth from YHWH.’

31 And they come to you, like the coming of people, and they sit before you—My people, and they hear your words, and they will not do them; for they do loves with their mouth; their heart is pursuing after dishonest gain.

32 And behold, you are to them as a song of loves, one beautiful of voice, and playing well on a stringed instrument; for they hear your words, and nthey do ot do them.

33 And in the coming of this—and behold, it is coming—they will know that a prophet has been in their midst.”