The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:21 (NIV)

In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem
came to me and said, ‘The city has fallen!’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:22 (NIV)

Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he opened my mouth before
the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.

 

[Isny]

Ezekiel 33:23 (KJV)

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:24 (NIV)

‘Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, “Abraham was only one man,
yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:25 (NIV)

Therefore say to them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: since you eat meat with the blood still in it
and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:26 (CSB)

You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife.
Should you then receive possession of the land?’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:27 (CSB)

“Tell them this: ‘This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I have given to wild animals to be devoured, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:28 (CSB)

I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:29 (CSB)

They will know that I am the Lord when I make the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable acts
they have committed.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:30 (CSB)

“As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses.
One person speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear what the message is that comes from the Lord!’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:31 (CSB)

So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them.
Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:32 (CSB)

Yes, to them you are like a singer of passionate songs who has a beautiful voice and plays skillfully on an instrument.
They hear your words, but they don’t obey them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 33:33 (CSB)

Yet when all this comes true—and it definitely will—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

 

[Chester]

Ezekiel 34:1 ESV

The word of the Lord came to me:

 

[Chester]

Ezekiel 34:2 ESV

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:3 (ESV)

You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:4 (ESV)

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:5 (ESV)

So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts.
My sheep were scattered;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:6 (ESV)

they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth,
with none to search or seek for them.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 34:7 (NIV)

‘“Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: