(1.00) | Eze 21:1 | (21:6) 1 The word of the Lord came to me: |
(1.00) | Eze 21:2 | “Son of man, turn toward 1 Jerusalem 2 and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel |
(1.00) | Eze 21:3 | and say to them, 1 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 2 I am against you. 3 I will draw my sword 4 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 5 |
(1.00) | Eze 21:5 | Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’ |
(1.00) | Eze 21:8 | The word of the Lord came to me: |
(1.00) | Eze 21:9 | “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says: “‘A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished. |
(1.00) | Eze 21:10 | It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning! “‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! 1 |
(1.00) | Eze 21:18 | The word of the Lord came to me: |
(1.00) | Eze 21:22 | Into his right hand 1 comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal 2 for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, 3 to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall. |
(1.00) | Eze 22:1 | The word of the Lord came to me: |
(1.00) | Eze 22:3 | Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), 1 and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity), |
(1.00) | Eze 22:4 | you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; 1 the end of your years has come. 2 Therefore I will make 3 you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands. |
(1.00) | Eze 22:9 | Slanderous men shed blood within you. 1 Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 2 they commit obscene acts among you. 3 |
(1.00) | Eze 22:15 | I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. 1 |
(1.00) | Eze 22:17 | The word of the Lord came to me: |
(1.00) | Eze 22:18 | “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; 1 they are the worthless slag of silver. |
(1.00) | Eze 22:19 | Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you 1 have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. 2 |
(1.00) | Eze 22:23 | The word of the Lord came to me: |
(1.00) | Eze 22:28 | Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. 1 They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken. |
(1.00) | Eze 23:1 | The word of the Lord came to me: |