The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 21:18 (NIV)

The word of the Lord came to me:

 

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Ezekiel 21:19 (CSB)

“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads that the sword of Babylon’s king can take. Both of them should originate
from the same land. And make a signpost at the fork in the road to each city.

 

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Ezekiel 21:20 (NKJV)
Appoint a road for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Judah, into fortified Jerusalem.

 

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Ezekiel 21:21 (NKJV)
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liver.

 

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Ezekiel 21:22 (NKJV)
In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem: to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a wall.

 

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Ezekiel 21:23 (CSB)

It will seem like false divination to those who have sworn an oath to the Babylonians, but it will draw attention
to their guilt so that they will be captured.

 

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Ezekiel 21:24 (CSB)

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions,
so that your sins are revealed in all your actions—since you have done this, you will be captured by them.

 

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Ezekiel 21:25 (NKJV)
‘Now to you, O profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose iniquity shall end,

 

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Ezekiel 21:26 (CSB)
“This is what the Lord GOD says: Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are; exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

 

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Ezekiel 21:27 (NIV)

A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come;
to him I will give it.”

 

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Ezekiel 21:28 (NIV)

‘And you, son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says about the Ammonites and their insults:

 

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Ezekiel 21:28 (NIV)

‘And you, son of man, prophesy and say, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says about the Ammonites and their insults:

Should be...

Ezekiel 21:28 (NIV)
“And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the Ammonites and their insults: “’A sword, a sword, drawn for the slaughter, polished to consume and to flash like lightning!

Moving forward...

Ezekiel 21:29 (NKJV)
While they see false visions for you, While they divine a lie to you, To bring you on the necks of the wicked, the slain Whose day has come, Whose iniquity shall end.

 

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Ezekiel 21:30 (ESV)
Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

 

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Ezekiel 21:31 (CSB)

I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow the fire of my fury on you. I will hand you over to brutal men,
skilled at destruction.

 

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Ezekiel 21:32 (CSB)

You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will be spilled within the land. You will not be remembered,
for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

 

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Ezekiel 22:1 (NKJV)
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

 

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Ezekiel 22:2 (NKJV)
“Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations!

 

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Ezekiel 22:3 (CSB)

You are to say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood within her walls so that her time of judgment
has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled!

 

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Ezekiel 22:4 (CSB)

You are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled from the idols you have made.
You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment.
Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

 

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Ezekiel 22:5 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall mock thee, thou defiled of name and full of tumult.