Ezekiel 28:21

The Darby Translation

Son of man, set thy face towards Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, face Sidon and prophesy against it.

Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, set your face toward Tzidon, and prophesy against it,

King James Version
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

English Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

New Century Version
"Human, look toward the city of Sidon and prophesy against her.

Amplified Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

World English Bible
Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesie against it,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the city of Sidon

Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, turn your face toward Tzidon, and prophesy against it.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, look toward Sidon and speak for me against that place.

George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Good News Translation
"Mortal man, denounce the city of Sidon.

Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it,

Literal Translation
Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, set thy face agaynst Sido, Prophecie vpo it,

American Standard Version
Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Bible in Basic English
Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy against it,

King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophecie against it,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophecie vpon it,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,

English Revised Version
Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, sette thi face ayens Sidon, and thou schalt profesie of it;

Update Bible Version
Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

New English Translation
"Son of man, turn toward Sidon and prophesy against it.

New King James Version
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her,

New Living Translation
"Son of man, turn and face the city of Sidon and prophesy against it.

New Life Bible
"Son of man, look toward Sidon and speak against her.

New Revised Standard
Mortal, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man, Set thy face towards Zidon, - And prophesy over it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,

Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it;

Contextual Overview

²⁰ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, ²¹ Son of man, set thy face towards Zidon, and prophesy against it, ²² and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be hallowed in her. ²³ And I will send into her the pestilence, and blood in her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword upon her on every side: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah. ²⁴ And there shall be no more a wounding sting for the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn, among all that were round about them, that despised them: and they shall know that I [am] the Lord Jehovah. ²⁵ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be hallowed in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their land which I have given to my servant Jacob. ²⁶ They shall dwell in it in safety, and shall build houses and plant vineyards; and they shall dwell in safety, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despised them round about them: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah their God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

set: Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 25:2, Ezekiel 29:2

Zidon: Tyre was a colony of the Zidonians - See note on Isaiah 23:12, and consequently Zidon was a more ancient, though a less considerable city than Tyre; and it is probable that it was taken by the Chaldeans soon after the destruction of the latter. It was afterwards burnt to the ground by the inhabitants, to prevent it falling in the hands of Ochus. Ezekiel 27:8, Ezekiel 32:30, Genesis 10:15, Sidon, Isaiah 23:2-4, Isaiah 23:12, Jeremiah 25:22, Jeremiah 27:3, Jeremiah 47:4, Joel 3:4-8, Zechariah 9:2

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 21:2 - set Mark 7:24 - Tyre

Cross-References

Exodus 15:2
My strength and song is Jah, and he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will glorify him; My father's God, and I will extol him.

Deuteronomy 26:17
Thou hast this day accepted Jehovah to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and to hearken unto his voice;

Judges 11:31
then shall that which cometh forth from the door of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, be Jehovah's, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.

2 Samuel 15:8
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.

2 Samuel 19:24
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. Now he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came [again] in peace.

2 Samuel 19:30
And Mephibosheth said to the king, Let him even take all, since my lord the king is come again in peace to his own house.

2 Kings 5:17
And Naaman said, If not, then let there, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of [this] earth; for thy servant will no more offer burnt-offering and sacrifice to other gods, but to Jehovah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, set thy face against Zidon,.... An ancient city, near to Tyre, and in confederacy with it, greatly given to idolatry and superstition; and may design all the antichristian states in the communion of the church of Rome:

and prophesy against it; the prophet is bid to look towards this place with a stern countenance, as before against Tyre; threatening it with ruin, and prophesying of it, in the following manner.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Prophecy against Zidon. Zidon (mod. Saida) was more ancient than Tyre and was the original metropolis of Phoenicia Genesis 10:19, but in the times of Phoenician greatness it ever played a subordinate part. Only once Judges 10:12 do we find the “Zidonians” in conflict with Israel. The evil which they did was the seducing them to idolatry (compare Ezekiel 28:24), as in the case of Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians 1 Kings 16:31. The capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar increased the importance of Zidon, which was a wealthy and flourishing town when Artaxerxes Ochus destroyed it. It has rallied from time to time, but has never attained to any great consequence, though not in such complete ruin as Tyre.