🔥WEB · Ezekiel 33:21
What does Ezekiel 33:21 mean?
"In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”"
— Ezekiel 33:21 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.
When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he will live thereby.
Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’”
In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”
Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’
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