Ezekiel 24:20

Wycliffe Bible

And Y seide to hem, The word of the Lord was maad to me,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So I answered them: “The word of the Lord came to me:

Hebrew Names Version
Then I said to them, The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
Then I answered them, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
Then I said to them, "The word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Century Version
Then I said to them, "The Lord spoke his word to me. He said,

Amplified Bible
Then I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

World English Bible
Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I answered them, The worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then I said to them, "The word of Yahweh came to me saying,

Berean Standard Bible
So I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

Contemporary English Version
I answered: The Lord God says

Complete Jewish Bible
I answered them, "The word of Adonai came to me, telling me

Darby Translation
And I said to them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then I said to them, "The word of the Lord came to me. He told me

George Lamsa Translation
Then I said to them, This is the word of the LORD which came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
So I said to them, "The Lord spoke to me and told me

Lexham English Bible
And I said to them that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
Then I said to them, The Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I answered them, the worde off the LORDE came vnto me, sayege:

American Standard Version
Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then I said unto them: 'The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Then I answered them, The word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I aunswered them, The word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
Then I said unto them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Update Bible Version
Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I answered them, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
So I said to them: "The word of the Lord came to me:

New King James Version
Then I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
So I said to them, "A message came to me from the Lord ,

New Life Bible
So I said to them, "The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
Then I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I said unto them: The word of Yahweh hath come unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me:

Young's Literal Translation
And I say unto them, `A word of Jehovah hath been unto me, saying:

THE MESSAGE
So I told them, " God 's Word came to me, saying, ‘Tell the family of Israel, This is what God , the Master, says: I will desecrate my Sanctuary, your proud impregnable fort, the delight of your life, your heart's desire. The children you left behind will be killed.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And the word of the Lord was maad to me, ¹⁶ and he seide, Thou, sone of man, lo! Y take awei fro thee the desirable thing of thin iyen in veniaunce, and thou schalt not weile, nether wepe, nether thi teeris schulen flete doun. ¹⁷ Weile thou beynge stille, thou schalt not make mourenyng of deed men; thi coroun be boundun aboute thin heed, and thi schoon schulen be in the feet, nether thou schalt hile the mouth with a cloth, nether thou schalt ete the metis of mourneris. ¹⁸ Therfor Y spak to the puple in the morewtid, and my wijf was deed in the euentid; and Y dide in the morewtid, as he hadde comaundid to me. ¹⁹ And the puple seide to me, Whi schewist thou not to vs what these thingis signefien, whiche thou doist? ²⁰ And Y seide to hem, The word of the Lord was maad to me, ²¹ and he seide, Speke thou to the hous of Israel, The Lord God seith these thingis, Lo! Y schal defoule my seyntuarie, the pride of youre empire, and the desirable thing of youre iyen, and on which youre soule dredith; and youre sones and youre douytris, whiche ye leften, schulen falle bi swerd. ²² And ye schulen do, as Y dide; ye schulen not hile mouthis with cloth, and ye schulen not ete the mete of weileris. ²³ Ye schulen haue corouns in youre heedis, and schoon in the feet; ye schulen not weile, nether ye schulen wepe, but ye schulen faile in wretchidnesse, for youre wickidnessis; and ech man schal weile to his brother. ²⁴ And Ezechiel schal be to you in to a signe of thing to comynge; bi alle thingis whiche he dide, ye schulen do, whanne this thing schal come; and ye schulen wite, that Y am the Lord God.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I answered them,.... And gave them an account of the design of the whole, and what was signified hereby:

the word of the Lord came unto me, saying; ordering him to do all he did; for he did nothing of himself, but all according to the divine will; and who also directed him to say the following things to the people, by way of explanation.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The death of Ezekiel’s wife took place in the evening of the same day that he delivered the foregoing prophecy. This event was to signify to the people that the Lord would take from them all that was most dear to them; and - owing to the extraordinary nature of the times - quiet lamentation for the dead, according to the usual forms of mourning, would be impossible.

Ezekiel 24:17

The priest in general was to mourn for his dead (Leviticus 21:1 ff); but Ezekiel was to be an exception to the rule. The “tire” was the priest’s mitre.

Eat not the bread of men - Food supplied for the comfort of the mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23

Pine away - Compare Leviticus 26:39. The outward signs of grief were a certain consolation. Their absence would indicate a heart-consuming sorrow.

Ezekiel 24:27

Ezekiel had been employed four years in foretelling the calamities about to come to pass. He had been utterly disregarded by the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and received with apparent respect but with real incredulity by those in exile. Now until the city had been actually taken, the voice of prophecy should cease, so far as God’s people were concerned. Hence the intervening series of predictions relating to neighboring and foreign nations Ezek. 25–32. After which the prophet’s voice was again heard addressing his countrymen in their exile. This accounts for the apparently parenthetical character of the next eight chapters.