Add parallel Print Page Options

27 A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! Also[a] this has not ever happened;[b] it will remain until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it to him.’ 28 And you, son of man,[c] prophesy, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the Ammonites[d] and concerning their disgrace,’ and you must say, ‘A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughtering; it is polished for holding, for flashing like lightning,[e] 29 when seeing a false vision for you in vain, when practicing divination for you falsely, to give[f] you on the neck of the profane ones of the wicked, whose day has come,[g] the time of final punishment.[h]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:27 Or “indeed”
  2. Ezekiel 21:27 Or “will not happen until” (cf. NASB and NRSV)
  3. Ezekiel 21:28 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  4. Ezekiel 21:28 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  5. Ezekiel 21:28 Literally “for the sake of lightening”
  6. Ezekiel 21:29 Or “place”
  7. Ezekiel 21:29 Literally “who has come their day”
  8. Ezekiel 21:29 Literally “in the time of the punishment of the end”