Ezekiel 33:21-33
Jerusalem Struck Down
21 In the atwelfth year bof our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, ca fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, d“The city has been struck down.” 22 aNow bthe hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
23 The word of the Lord came to me: 24 a“Son of man, the inhabitants of these bwaste places in the land of Israel keep saying, c‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but dwe are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’ 25 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: aYou eat flesh with the blood and blift up your eyes to your idols and cshed blood; shall you then possess the land? 26 aYou rely on the sword, byou commit abominations, and beach of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land? 27 Say this to them, Thus says the Lord God: aAs I live, surely those who are in bthe waste places shall fall by cthe sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to cthe beasts to be devoured, and those who are in dstrongholds and in caves shall die by cpestilence. 28 aAnd I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and bher proud might shall come to an end, and cthe mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through. 29 aThen they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.
30 “As for you, ason of man, byour people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 aAnd they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for bwith lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain. 32 And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and aplays well on an instrument, for bthey hear what you say, but they will not do it. 33 aWhen this comes—and come it will!—bthen they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
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