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New Century Version

Ezekiel 7:21

I will give it to foreigners as loot from war and to the most evil people in the world as treasure, and they will dishonor it.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the River;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Nations;   Stranger;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Profane;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will hand these things overto foreigners as plunderand to the wicked of the earth as spoil,and they will profane them.
Hebrew Names Version
I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the eretz for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
King James Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
English Standard Version
And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.
New American Standard Bible
'And I will hand it over to the foreigners as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth as spoils; and they will profane it.
Amplified Bible
'I will give it into the hands of strangers (Babylonians) as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they shall profane it.
World English Bible
I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will giue it into the handes of the strangers to be spoyled, and to the wicked of the earth to be robbed, and they shall pollute it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
Berean Standard Bible
And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.
Contemporary English Version
Wicked foreigners will rob and disgrace you.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will hand it over to foreigners as booty, to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
Darby Translation
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will let strangers take them. Those strangers will make fun of them. They will kill some of the people and take others away as prisoners.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Good News Translation
"I will let foreigners rob them," says the Lord , "and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.
Lexham English Bible
And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it.
Literal Translation
And I will also give it into the hand of the strangers for a prize, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil. And they shall defile it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Morouer, I will geue it in to ye hondes off the straungers to be spoyled: and to ye wicked, for to be robbed, and they shall destroye it.
American Standard Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Bible in Basic English
And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
King James Version (1611)
And I will giue it into the hands of the strangers for a pray, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoile, and they shall pollute it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moreouer, I wyll geue it into the handes of straungers to be spoyled, & to the wicked of the earth for to be robbed, and they shall pollute it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.
English Revised Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal yyue it in to the hondis of aliens, to rauysche, and to the vnpitouse men of erthe, in to prey, and thei schulen defoule it.
Update Bible Version
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
New English Translation
I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world's wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.
New King James Version
I will give it as plunder Into the hands of strangers, And to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.
New Living Translation
I will give it as plunder to foreigners, to the most wicked of nations, and they will defile it.
New Life Bible
I will give it to the strangers and to the sinful people of the earth as a prize of war, and they will make it sinful.
New Revised Standard
I will hand it over to strangers as booty, to the wicked of the earth as plunder; they shall profane it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea I will deliver it Into the hand of foreigners for a prey, And to the lawless ones of the earth for a spoil, And they will profane it;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
Revised Standard Version
And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.

Contextual Overview

16 Those who are left alive and who escape will be on the mountains, moaning like doves of the valleys about their own sin. 17 All hands will hang weakly with fear, and all knees will become weak as water. 18 They will put on rough cloth to show how sad they are. They will tremble all over with fear. Their faces will show their shame, and all their heads will be shaved. 19 The people will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be like trash. Their silver and gold will not save them from the Lord 's anger. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, because it caused them to fall into sin. 20 They were proud of their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their idols and their evil statues, which I hate. So I will turn their wealth into trash. 21 I will give it to foreigners as loot from war and to the most evil people in the world as treasure, and they will dishonor it. 22 I will also turn away from the people of Israel, and they will dishonor my treasured place. Then robbers will enter and dishonor it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Kings 24:13, 2 Kings 25:9, 2 Kings 25:13-16, 2 Chronicles 36:18, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Psalms 74:2-8, Psalms 79:1, Jeremiah 52:13-23

Reciprocal: Isaiah 64:11 - holy Jeremiah 12:7 - I have given Jeremiah 19:13 - defiled Jeremiah 51:51 - for strangers Lamentations 2:7 - they have Lamentations 5:2 - General Daniel 11:31 - they shall pollute Zephaniah 1:13 - their goods

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
he said to Noah, "Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.
Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.
Genesis 7:3
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came.
Genesis 7:7
He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:15
Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.
Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.
Genesis 7:20
It continued to rise until it was more than twenty feet above the mountains.
Genesis 7:22
So everything on dry land that had the breath of life in it died.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey,.... The Babylonians, who lived in a foreign country, and were strangers to the commonwealth of Israel; the temple was suffered of the Lord to fall into their hands as a prey; who spoiled it of all its riches and glory, and carried away the vessels of gold, of silver, and of brass, and other valuable things; see Jeremiah 52:17;

and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; meaning the same persons, and the same thing, and the same use they should make of it; for not the wicked of the world in general are meant, but of the land, or this land; the land of Babylon, where the prophet was:

and they shall pollute it; by entering into it and spoiling it, by pillaging and burning it.


 
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