🔥WEB · Ezekiel 28:21

What does Ezekiel 28:21 mean?

"“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,"

— Ezekiel 28:21 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

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All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.”’”

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Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

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and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her.

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For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall within her, with the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

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“‘“There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

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